And so we've got these investigations going on at the moment, but our electoral commission has concluded that two campaigns broke the law, and broke the law by a massive amount.
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The DREAM Act is a narrow piece of legislation that benefits a group of people who are in the country either because they broke the law, or their parents broke the law.
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Sure, we broke the law, but I didn't feel guilty.
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Hillary broke the law, pruger herself and is a crook.
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We also don't know if Flynn truly broke the law.
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"Now, don't tell anybody I broke the law," he said.
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He added that it's unlikely the EPA broke the law.
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Waziri is of her own making: She broke the law.
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If Cambridge broke the law, it should be held accountable.
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Michael Flynn, broke the law and received money from Russia.
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But what is indisputable is that Mr Fujimori broke the law.
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And, more importantly, they broke the law when they did so.
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And this man broke the law by taking my father's life.
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But there is no clear indication that Trump broke the law.
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"He was a bad governor who broke the law," Kinzinger said.
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"The Weinstein Company repeatedly broke the law," Schneiderman said on Monday.
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In pursuit of growth at any cost, employees broke the law.
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Federal prosecutors are now investigating whether Giuliani himself broke the law.
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Adam Schiff broke the law and even suggesting he committed treason.
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Mueller is now looking into whether those dealings broke the law.
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But you have these speeding tickets, and you still broke the law.
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That's the standard the FBI needs to prove Clinton broke the law.
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It's also unclear whether the Enquirer broke the law in threatening Bezos.
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"We don't know if he broke the law," Schumer said of Price.
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The city broke the law, and the kids are suffering for it.
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There doesn't appear to be any suggestion that Comey broke the law.
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It's whether he lied about it and whether he broke the law.
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Texas Republicans argued that the videos showed Planned Parenthood broke the law.
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"I broke the law," Huffman said in a statement to NBC News.
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Some of these people broke the law, sometimes drastically like Larry Nassar.
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They broke the law by coming into the country, & now by staying.
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The question is no longer whether Trump broke the law with Russia.
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You broke the law and fled as I tried to apprehend you.
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Manafort's defense team has argued that he never deliberately broke the law.
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In doing so, I broke the law by exceeding the campaign finance limit.
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A federal watchdog says Kellyanne Conway broke the law and should be fired.
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" ON WHETHER HE EVER BROKE THE LAW: "Have I ever done anything illegal?...
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Claiming to crack down on illegal migrants, they even broke the law themselves.
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"Hillary Clinton broke the law," he yelled, barely loud enough to be heard.
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Altogether, there was a lot of circumstantial evidence that Flynn broke the law.
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Instead they broke the law, and then lied to the public about it.
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It has also taken enforcement actions after discovering lenders that broke the law.
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This shouldn't be the first time, even if the administration broke the law.
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AS A TEENAGER working at a Pennsylvania theme park Keith broke the law.
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Manafort broke the law -- as judged by a jury of his peers. 13.
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She has said there has been no evidence that she broke the law.
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All of them broke the law: They sneaked into the subway without paying.
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Mr. Avenatti has also said it is unenforceable because it broke the law.
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You broke the law and you fled as I tried to apprehend you.
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And if they broke the law, he would pardon them, the Post reported.
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Nothing in the documents suggests Mr. Kushner or his company broke the law.
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The day before, I broke the law by driving over the speed limit.
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Conversely, Wikileaks probably broke the law, possibly in partnership with the Russian government.
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A federal judge recently ruled federal prosecutors broke the law on Acosta's watch.
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We want to know if there is evidence that Trump broke the law.
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It was not immediately evident if or how the legislators broke the law.
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Pagan broke the law and deserved to be held accountable for his crime.
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Ms. Nuril, he said, broke the law and deserved to go to jail.
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But I do believe she broke the law and she belongs in jail.
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Ultimately, the investigation did not establish that any of these contacts broke the law.
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But according to prosecutors, Manafort's secretive attempts to improve Ukraine's image broke the law.
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Donald Trump broke the law again in the summer, broke it again this fall.
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Comey&aposs a liar and a leaker and probably broke the law multiple ways.
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This is about who broke the law and broke faith with the American people.
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" "Wisconsinites have a right to know if their state's senior senator broke the law.
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In some cases, the courts have found that the Trump officials broke the law.
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Rappler, which continues to operate normally pending an appeal denies it broke the law.
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But the Trump Foundation flat out broke the law by making a political contribution.
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Another 17 percent claimed that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee broke the law unintentionally.
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The Thursday report does not say that anyone at the EPA broke the law.
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Donald Trump broke the law again in the summer, broke it again this fall.
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And the reason you're talking to me now is because we broke the law.
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But she also cautioned that it doesn't mean the Trump aides broke the law.
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The regulator says Facebook broke the law, breaching the UK Data Protection Act twice.
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Did he receive remuneration to look the other way when his partners broke the law?
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Bad news: He definitely broke the law as he cast his ballot, reports Us Weekly.
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A lot of people broke the law on inauguration day and they should be punished.
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"The officials who broke the law in Mozambique need to be held accountable," she said.
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David Scott (D-Ga.) directly asked Stumpf at one point if he broke the law.
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Opposition parties have asked the top court to rule on whether he broke the law.
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Legal procedure is being followed, and it seems likely that Ms. Rousseff broke the law.
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Recently, the Government Accountability Office concluded that the EPA broke the law in promoting WOTUS.
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We will proceed to deliver justice and hold those accountable who broke the law, period.
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Half of independents also hold that view, and few Democrats say she broke the law.
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Look what happened as a result: Donald Trump broke the law again in the summer.
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There's a consensus: If the president broke the law or abused power, impeachment is merited.
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It doesn't mention Russia or the allegations that Trump broke the law and obstructed justice.
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The Justice Department should then hold accountable those people who broke the law and the rules.
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Of course, the new line of investigation does not necessarily mean that Clinton broke the law.
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JARRETT: The inspector general probably will not say Hillary Clinton broke the law and committed crimes.
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JAKE TAPPER, CNN: Porn star Stormy Daniels claims President Trump broke the law, had her bullied.
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When famine struck North Korea in the 1990s, millions broke the law by selling smuggled food.
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When famine struck North Korea in the 22011s, millions broke the law by selling smuggled food.
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The ruling declared Qualcomm broke the law by suppressing competitors within the mobile phone chip market.
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So she broke the law a little bit and got a little handsy with the art.
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Counts of the number of times Obama broke the law range from one to six dozen.
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Without seeing Mr. Ponsoldt's tax returns, it is impossible to know if he broke the law.
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According to a lawsuit filed by IMR against Akhmetshin, he broke the law in doing so.
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That prompted the Kremlin to demand an investigation to determine whether his statement broke the law.
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Express Scripts created a website that maintains CareZone broke the law with how it dispenses drugs.
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US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley broke the law — by retweeting President Donald Trump.
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Focusing on whether the Trump campaign and transition team broke the law misses the bigger picture.
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"The OMB, the White House, the administration broke — I'm saying this — broke the law," she said.
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Clinton adamantly denies that she broke the law with her use of the private email account.
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EU campaign group broke the law over donations it received during last year's European Union referendum.
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Two lower courts have ruled that the government broke the law by failing to arrest Mr Bashir.
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It's not that they felt like the investors who came to them broke the law, they said.
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A president could only be justifiably impeached if he repeatedly broke the law and misled the public.
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The Government Accountability Office already found that the $43,000 phone booth in Pruitt's office broke the law.
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SO I WISH PEOPLE WOULD STOP DOING THAT - PEOPLE BROKE THE LAW AND THEY SHOULD BE PUNISHED.
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Crime "on the other side" Trump repeated his claim that unspecified opponents of his broke the law.
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Perhaps, though, the special counsel decides there's enough evidence to prove that the President broke the law.
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If there is evidence that one or both of them broke the law, can't they be charged?
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Exxon has repeatedly and forcefully rejected accusations that it broke the law in its previously climate work.
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To them, the report was a home run: A nonpartisan, official finding that Pruitt broke the law.
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If federal agencies broke the law in any way, they should be held accountable under the law.
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Still, United States investigators now say the company broke the law in connection with its business there.
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Finally, there's a new investigation into whether the White House broke the law in freezing that aid.
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President Donald Trump broke the law to hire his top immigration official, a federal judge ruled Sunday.
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"The OMB, the White House, the administration broke - I'm saying this - broke the law," Pelosi told reporters.
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Federal investigators have reportedly not found anything showing the former secretary of State willingly broke the law.
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When split along party lines, 6900 percent of Democrats say it is likely Trump broke the law.
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Jay, Texas: Can a sitting president be indicted if he broke the law to get the presidency?
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Facebook's response at the time was simply that it disagrees with the finding that it broke the law.
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Lyft broke the law by not telling Chicago authorities it deactivated a driver last year, the city said.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) alleged that in scrapping net neutrality regulations, Republicans leading the FCC broke the law.
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Lyft broke the law when it failed to tell Chicago about a driver it kicked off its app.
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Neither does the resident you ask for, though she broke the law, and the law must be upheld.
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But, they said, her work with the Mennonites broke the law, and put women and newborns at risk.
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It's the subject of four lawsuits, with attorneys general opening inquiries into whether the company broke the law.
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But some legal experts contend that by simply sitting for the meeting, Donald Trump Jr. broke the law.
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In the process of this high crime, Trump broke the law, as a nonpartisan congressional watchdog reported Thursday.
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They know when someone broke the law, and that's why I think you're seeing that support for impeachment.
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But how would his junk possibly tie into whether Clinton broke the law through her private email server?
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A Gallup poll published Thursday found that 29 percent of adults said they believe Trump broke the law by colluding with Russia during the campaign, and 31 percent think he broke the law by making illegal hush-money payments to two women in 2016 who said they had affairs with Trump.
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A Fox News poll of voters released on Thursday indicates that a majority (58 percent) think it's at least somewhat likely the FBI broke the law when it started investigating the Trump campaign, compared to just 31 percent who said it's not at all likely the FBI broke the law.
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And literally supporting and helping somebody we know broke the law and then viciously trying to destroy another candidate.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating whether Juul broke the law in its presentations to tribe leaders.
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While the Justice Department never refuted Trump's accusations, Comey believes they incorrectly insinuate that the FBI broke the law.
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Macedonian security officials said it's not clear that anyone involved in the Veles fake news operations broke the law.
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Financial institutions or businesses could face fines of up to $10 million if they broke the law, it warned.
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Selfie-ish act Justin Timberlake's voting selfie in Memphis was cool and all, but he probably broke the law.
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The British information commissioner subsequently found that one of the partner hospitals broke the law in handling patient data.
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President Donald Trump at one point alleged Rice broke the law by requesting the unmasking of US individuals' identities.
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One investigation already concluded he broke the law when he purchased a $43,000 secure phone booth without notifying Congress.
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"There should be no amnesty for anyone who broke the law to come here," one Freedom Caucus member, Rep.
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A federal judge ruled that a North Carolina school broke the law when it required girls to wear skirts.
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John Ensign (R-Nev.) broke the law when he tried to cover up an affair with a political aide.
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Read more: What happens now that the Supreme Court has ruled Boris Johnson broke the law by suspending Parliament?
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After that explanation, Barr said the special counsel did not find anyone from the Trump campaign broke the law.
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If the U.S. government can prove Holmes went too far and broke the law, she will suffer for that.
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The Government Accountability Office ultimately concluded the White House broke the law with its hold on the Ukraine money.
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"Not Chuck Schumer, not a House Democrat but the impartial GAO said the president broke the law," Schumer said.
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But they said their sale even for civilian use broke the law under the sweeping trade embargo with Iran.
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At the moment, that means a Republican has to be blind to all evidence that Trump broke the law.
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Republicans were the only demographic group without a majority who believed Trump broke the law before he was President.
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Trump has fired back, calling Comey a "leaker & liar" and claiming he broke the law by releasing classified information.
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On Thursday, the police were investigating if Mr. Banks broke the law while promoting Britain's departure, known as Brexit.
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"Should I feel sorry for this lady who broke the law and put her family in this situation?" he asked.
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"In the actual articles of impeachment, there are no accusations that the president broke the law," Collins told CBS Tuesday.
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Even if the now-fired contractors technically broke the law, they proved that the CIA is not a flawless organization.
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Flynn is the first person who had actually served in the Trump White House to admit he broke the law.
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The Judiciary Committee is urging regulators to investigate whether Mylan broke the law by keeping schools from purchasing EpiPen competitors.
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Mr. Make America Great Again broke the law that prohibited U.S. businesses from doing business with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
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Flynn was the first person who had actually served in the Trump White House to admit he broke the law.
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Prosecutors on Friday said that the president's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, broke the law at then-candidate Trump's direction.
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The FBI assisted Weinstein in her negotiations, overlooking instances in which she broke the law by paying the terrorist group.
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Mr. Snowden, now in Russia, deliberately broke the law and should not "be brought home without facing the music," Mrs.
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Republicans said they don't want to speculate on what comes next if more evidence emerges that Trump broke the law.
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Read more: Lyft broke the law when it failed to tell Chicago about a driver it kicked off its app.
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If he had broke the law then he would have been sinful and he would not have been our Messiah.
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After an investigation that lasted nearly a year, Comey said he found no evidence that Clinton intentionally broke the law.
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Whether they realize it or not, experts say they appear to have admitted that Trump and Cohen broke the law.
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The court ruled that the party broke the law by taking a 191 million baht ($6 million) loan from Thanathorn.
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Democrats point to the Government Accountability Office opinion last week that Trump withholding aid appropriated by Congress broke the law.
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Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said earlier that the investigation had to decide if officers broke the law.
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In other words, they may not have known that they were breaking the law when they allegedly broke the law.
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We&aposre not putting shoplifters behind bars in every case and separating them from their families, and they broke the law.
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Meanwhile, his son Eric broke the law by posting a picture of his ballot on Twitter earlier today, BuzzFeed News reported.
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Bharara's logic is clear: why would someone who did not intentionally break the law publicly confess that he broke the law?
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Dan Scavino is less of a household name, but he's the guy who broke the law with a tweet last month.
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But whatever new emails authorities have found are apparently enough to trigger a second look at whether she broke the law.
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The president simply lost trust in Flynn but does not believe he broke the law, press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters.
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Trump repeated several times in the interview on Wednesday that Mueller was personally responsible and that those actions broke the law.
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What do you think about the argument some people make that you don't deserve to stay because you broke the law?
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Any speculation that Trump's lawyers broke the law with this phone call appears to be a bit ahead of the facts.
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But he never took the final step of clearly saying Trump broke the law or committed a crime in any instance.
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On Thursday, Marra said that deal robbed Epstein's victims of their rights, and the prosecutors who designed it broke the law.
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For the first time, President Donald Trump faces a formal accusation that he personally broke the law to further his candidacy.
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The company broke the law not just in multiple urban jurisdictions across the United States, but in jurisdictions around the world.
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This morning, Eric Trump, Donald Trump's second son, broke the law by posting a photo of his completed ballot on Twitter.
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Obama sang a different tune in 2628, when he said Manning, then known as Bradley, "broke the law" and deserved punishment.
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Obama previously condemned Manning's actions in 2011, arguing the former private, then known as Bradley, "broke the law" and deserved punishment.
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One student sang the praises of a teacher who broke the law in seventh grade to tell students about safe sex.
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"The people behind this fraud lied and broke the law in order to spread malicious lies about Planned Parenthood," she said.
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Democratic FEC Commissioners Ann Ravel and Steven Walther were the only two who voted to find Fox News broke the law.
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More Lyft news: Lyft broke the law when it failed to tell Chicago about a driver it kicked off its app.
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office last week determined that the EPA broke the law by approving the expense without Congress's permission.
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"Unmasking" can be performed legally, and no evidence has emerged so far that Rice broke the law while making the requests.
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"Royal Mail broke the law by abusing its dominant position in bulk mail delivery," said Jonathan Oxley, Ofcom's Competition Group Director.
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They have also prompted a lawsuit from Planned Parenthood, which argues the group broke the law in taking the secret videos.
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A major recipient of federal grant money repeatedly broke the law by helping women seeking abortions, a government watchdog has found.
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A major recipient of federal grant money repeatedly broke the law by helping women seek abortions, a government watchdog reported Tuesday.
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Regardless of who made the decision, there isn't evidence proving that Price broke the law by trading on his insider knowledge.
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"The one that broke the law is the dharma community hall, not the Dutch man," said one lawyer, U Zaw Win.
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A judge says that as a prosecutor, Alexander Acosta broke the law to help a powerful man accused of abusing girls.
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In an interview on Japanese television, she declared that they broke the law even before a court had delivered a verdict.
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Just because the primary got certified, if you broke the law to win it, that doesn't get you off the hook.
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A government watchdog office has concluded that Mr. Pruitt broke the law with the $43,000 installation of a secure telephone booth.
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We need to know if the president broke the law and did so for his own benefit to influence the election.
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Released Thursday, the report stated the Trump administration broke the law when it withheld military aid to Ukraine without notifying Congress.
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"I can't shoot you, unless you're robbing me, because then I broke the law, it's illegal to shoot you," he says.
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The state coalition, led by Attorney General Maura Healey of Massachusetts, says that in so doing the department broke the law.
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In the coming days, as Mr. Johnson noted, the high court will decide whether he broke the law in suspending Parliament.
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" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said, "The OMB, the White House, the administration, broke — I'm saying this —- broke the law.
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The FBI appears to be investigating whether Clinton or her associates broke the law by using the setup for official use.
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It also alleged that a now-deceased petroleum minister broke the law by signing the contract without proper approvals and protocol.
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It also alleged that a now-deceased petroleum minister broke the law by signing the contract without proper approvals and protocol.
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True, no proof has been presented that Kushner broke the law or plotted with Russia to interfere in the U.S. election.
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Mr. Meadows somehow managed to turn a hearing about whether the president broke the law into a minutes-long temper tantrum.
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On Tuesday, Democrats began gathering signatures to demand a probe into whether the president's companies broke the law by hiring undocumented workers.
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In season 1, it was a whisper network of small but mighty rebellions, like Handmaids who broke the law to write letters.
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Evidence that Trump sexually assaulted women—and paid off others in ways that broke the law—should be enough to boot him.
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A more constructive prison culture can help people who once broke the law find new, more productive futures before they go home.
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Democratic respondents, however, overwhelmingly — at 2628 percent — believe the president broke the law before entering the White House; only 28503 percent disagree.
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More Uber and Lyft news:Lyft broke the law when it failed to tell Chicago about a driver it kicked off its app.
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Clinton's role from the bureau's yearlong investigation into whether she or her aides broke the law by using a private system — clintonemail.
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If it's found that drugmakers and distributors broke the law, they could be on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Facebook will be fined £500,203 ($662,900) in the U.K. after the country's privacy watchdog said its data sharing scandal broke the law.
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Friday's indictment does not allege that any Americans knowingly broke the law or that the conspiracy changed the outcome of the election.
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Mr. Barr said that Mr. Mueller declined to determine whether Mr. Trump broke the law but also pointedly did not exonerate him.
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She just needs to know you broke the law, you did the wrong thing, and you didn't try to make it right.
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In this context, whatever his rationale, and whether or not he broke the law, is that acceptable conduct for an American president?
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So what if the executive branch just broke the law to run over some toes on one leg of the legislative branch?
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Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, on whether the White House broke the law in withholding the Ukraine aid is coming on Thursday.
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"The next piece is what to do with adults who knowingly broke the law but haven't violated other criminal laws," Coffman said.
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She said that those looking into the issue and have yet to come up with any evidence that she broke the law.
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But whether he knowingly broke the law or not, like most celebrity candidates, his novice status makes pleading ignorance a reliable strategy.
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The latest effort to rework a program for borrowers whose schools broke the law drew an immediate promise of a court challenge.
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The trick was getting government approval — and to win it, prosecutors say, Mr. Lee and the corporate strategy office broke the law.
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But to be criminally culpable, prosecutors would need to prove that he deliberately broke the law as opposed to simply being confused.
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A federal judge agreed, and said that ORR's reliance on just the X-rays broke the law — and the juvenile was released.
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And though those prosecutors have uncovered serious evidence that Trump himself broke the law, they also may be at a dead end.
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Separately, some conservatives have now maintained that she broke the law by having private emails deleted in violation for a congressional subpoena.
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A bombshell charge that she broke the law -- though not expected by many legal analysts -- could turn the presidential race on its head.
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I was afraid of getting arrested if I didn't follow the curfew, the governor was pretty serious about people who broke the law.
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The group's Twitter account has hyped Clinton's health problems and suggested she broke the law: Clinton lied to FBI, smashed phones, deleted emails.
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Trump is therefore creating a false narrative by asserting that Mueller "would have brought charges" if there was evidence Trump broke the law.
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This explanation led Schumer to offer the caveat that Price broke the law "if he knew about" the purchase before introducing the bill.
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By retaining the data of people not under investigation, CSIS broke the law, the court ruled, and the data retention was flatly illegal.
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Pruitt reimbursed himself nearly $65,000 from his two attorney general campaigns, and it's unclear if these payments broke the law, according to CNN.
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And last week the BBC reported on a leaked draft of the report suggesting the Commission will find the campaigns broke the law.
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Prosecutors traditionally refrain from making statements about whether they think suspects broke the law, if that person isn't ultimately charged with a crime.
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Former Trump campaign boss Paul Manafort "repeatedly and brazenly" broke the law, special counsel Robert Mueller said in a court filing unsealed Saturday.
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China's cabinet investigation group has found that Changsheng broke the law in manufacturing rabies vaccines, the state news agency Xinhua said on Friday.
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Prosecutors say Assange, through WikiLeaks, broke the law when he "conspired" to obtain national security information from former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.
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I think the fact that there is significant evidence that he broke the law is our what our litmus test needs to be.
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In March, Signet shareholders sued the company, claiming it broke the law by failing to disclose the severity of the sex bias claims.
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"A lot of people would say that law is very restrictive," Bannon said in response to Usherwood's insistence that Robinson broke the law.
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Harvey Weinstein, Sterling Jewelers, and Wells Fargo broke the law, but the terms they used to cover up their misconduct are largely legal.
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It said the agency broke the law by linking to environmental groups' web pages that asked readers to contact Congress on the matter.
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The letters ask officials at the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate whether the company and the clinics broke the law.
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Although it may not pose an ongoing security threat, Mulroy said the question remains open whether Kushner broke the law with his omissions.
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They say evidence indicating that Trump advisers broke the law may necessitate special counsel — but so far nothing has reached that threshold. Sen.
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" Austan Goolsbee, another former CEA chair under Obama, tweeted, "If the president just tipped that the numbers are good, he broke the law.
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He recognized that while Mr. Snowden broke the law, "he actually performed a public service" by raising the national debate on surveillance practices.
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The US Government Accountability Office, an independent government watchdog, found that the Trump administration's decision to freeze the security assistance broke the law.
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"Anyone who broke the law must be held accountable — from those at the top who ordered it to those who carried it out."
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Several legal experts have said the details attributed to Bolton&aposs book give overwhelming weight to the case that Trump broke the law.
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Republicans have broadly opposed the idea, saying it will reward those who broke the law while threatening to steal jobs from American workers.
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The widespread accusations that Nancy Pelosi broke the law by ripping her copy of the SOTU speech are false from a legal standpoint.
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) also said Thursday that the administration's freezing of nearly $400 million in aid to Kyiv broke the law.
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On Thursday morning, the Government Accountability Office found that the White House budget office broke the law in withholding military aid to Ukraine.
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In interviews and lawsuits, workers have made a graver charge: that the restaurants often broke the law by cheating them on their wages.
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But now, she wants the SEC to determine if the firms actually broke the law in offering those differing views, by misleading investors.
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The former top cop has generally dismissed claims that Snowden is a whistleblower, arguing that he simply broke the law in his disclosures.
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I'm downright angry that Richard Haste and all the officers on the scene who broke the law need to be held to account.
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According to senior officials speaking to the newspaper, Comey made the call because Trump's claim wrongly insinuates that his organization broke the law.
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And what&aposs wrong with zero-tolerance, the idea you come across the border, you broke the law, we&aposre going to prosecute you?
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Law enforcement and intelligence officials say it doesn't look like Flynn broke the law, but the White House says there was a trust issue.
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The investigation found that Vote Leave broke the law by exceeding its £7MM spending limit by channelling £675,000 into a pro-leave youth group.
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" The Wall Street Journal, in a scathing editorial on Wednesday, criticized Comey for showing how Clinton "broke the law" and then "[rationalizing] no indictment.
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And there's also the one that the Government Accountability Office just wrapped up, which found the EPA broke the law by purchasing the booth.
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When many male miners left Marmato, in Colombia, to find better pay elsewhere, female replacements were tolerated, even though hiring them broke the law.
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Nonetheless, there is no suggestion that he broke the law, and he is outspoken in his condemnation of those who now brazenly do so.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump broke the law "six ways from Sunday," Jerrold Nadler, the Democratic chair of the House Judiciary Committee, said over the weekend.
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There was some confusion, however, as Jacobs disagreed with certain parts of his lawyer's letter—in particular that Uber's program ever broke the law.
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Facebook also broke the law, the FTC alleged, by misusing phone numbers obtained for account security purposes to also target advertisements to its users.
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This past February, a federal judge ruled Acosta and other prosecutors broke the law in 2008 by concealing the deal from Epstein's alleged victims.
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As any teacher of screenwriting will tell you, Democrats need to show that the president broke the law, not just tell us about it.
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Clinton, her aides or anyone else broke the law by setting up a private email server for her to use as secretary of state.
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He's widely mocked, his marriage fell apart amid a storm of bad press, and his father reportedly thinks he broke the law by accident.
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The question of whether Trump broke the law, or committed impeachable offenses, will be endlessly debated in the days, weeks, and months to come.
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If others in this country broke the law in connection with the last election, now is not the time for them to rest easy.
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Anonymous officials say Comey believes there is no evidence for such a claim, and allowing it to stand suggests the FBI broke the law.
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"Donald Trump broke the law to undermine women's health, and women here in Pennsylvania stood up and proved that in court," Mr. Shapiro said.
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They expressed irritation that Mr. Mueller fell short of his assignment by declining to make a decision about whether Mr. Trump broke the law.
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Our Washington correspondent explains the options before the special counsel: Either there is evidence that Mr. Trump broke the law, or there is not.
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The agency is alleging the companies broke the law by failing to protect information about the geolocation of their hundreds of millions of customers.
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First, a federal judge has ruled that then-US Attorney Alex Acosta broke the law by failing to notify Epstein's victims of the deal.
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Residents of a small island in Maine took the coronavirus quarantine matters into their own hands, and potentially broke the law in the process.
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Under the law, officials can only be liable for monetary damages for a Privacy Act violation if they broke the law intentionally or willfully.
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Indeed, this month, the Government Accountability Office determined that Trump broke the law when withholding funds to Ukraine as part of his pressure campaign.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said on Tuesday that the counsel's office was not investigating whether Mr. Kushner broke the law.
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The Government Accountability Office also said Thursday that the administration's freezing of nearly $400 million in congressionally approved aid to Kyiv broke the law.
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Kasowitz said Thursday that Comey had "made unauthorized disclosures to the press of privileged communications with the president," suggesting that he broke the law.
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Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in 1813 in North Carolina, where her mistress broke the law and taught her to read and write.
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Mueller himself did not reach a conclusion on whether Trump broke the law, but he presented his evidence to Barr to make a determination.
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The other choice is, if you detain the parents who broke the law under the Flores decision, you have to break the family up.
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Shares of Qualcomm plunged 10.9% Wednesday, a day after a judge ruled the company broke the law by suppressing competition in the cellphone chip market.
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Facebook has also declined to say where the affected users are located, and that could have a major bearing on whether Facebook broke the law.
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The findings come months after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that the EPA broke the law in its promotion of its Clean Water Rule.
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At least half of the country believes the president may have cooperated with a foreign government while it broke the law to win his office.
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" "I don't believe the President broke the law, but one of the core principles of our country is that no one is above the law.
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He said he broke the law at Trump's direction, and federal prosecutors signaled in court filings that they had further evidence Trump directed the payments.
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I don't believe the President broke the law, but one of the core principles of our country is that no one is above the law.
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The F.B.I. regularly interviews key figures before concluding an investigation, and such meetings are not an indication that it thinks the person broke the law.
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A UK court earlier found that Britain broke the law by allowing arms sales to Saudi Arabia that might have been used in Yemen's war.
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But Republican lawmakers and others objected to helping a Chinese company that broke the law and has been accused of posing a national security threat.
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The Government Accountability Office, a non-partisan congressional watchdog, said Trump broke the law by refusing to spend money that had been approved by Congress.
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Li says that throughout his time in Wuhan he abided by all the rules in relation to wearing protective gear and never broke the law.
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Richman's comments are something of a rebuttal to President Donald Trump's accusation Monday morning that Comey broke the law by leaking classified information to reporters.
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It recommended that the charity overhaul its complaint system for villagers to report allegations, and "establish harsh consequences" for eco-guards who broke the law.
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On a separate question in the survey, 32 percent of Republicans say they think Trump has definitely or probably done things that broke the law.
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The journalist did, however, publicize the recording, and the Court assumed that the journalist knew that the person who made the recording broke the law.
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Police are granted wide latitude to respond to situations in the course of their duty, and prosecutors must show that police willfully broke the law.
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In such illegal voting cases, prosecutors are required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the individual knowingly broke the law in casting the ballot.
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"Too often, financial services entities that broke the law were not properly held to account," Mr. Hayne, who led the commission, said in the report.
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No corporation can break the law unless people in that corporation also broke the law, but no one from any of those banks has been charged.
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In February, a federal judge in Florida ruled that the Department of Justice broke the law by failing to confer with Epstein's victims about the agreement.
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Denham claims Facebook broke the law by not being able to protect people's information and hadn't been open about how data was harvested from their platform.
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Trump was not charged — the Justice Department has long held that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted — and he has denied that he broke the law.
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I broke the law, and while she wasn't forgiving of me when she assumed I was Iranian, she gave me a free pass for being foreign.
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Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Comey broke the law by violating the Hatch Act, which prohibits the use of federal offices for political efforts.
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"Donald Trump broke the law to undermine women's health, and women here in Pennsylvania stood up and proved that in court," he said in a statement.
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"I think it's going to be the biggest story," Trump said, during a New York Times interview which included his allegations that Rice broke the law.
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"If the DA uncovers credible evidence that Trump himself broke the law in New York, I think they'll consider it like any other case," Levin said.
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The special counsel's report left open some gray areas, especially on the extent of Trump's efforts to obstruct the investigation and whether he broke the law.
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The FBI confirmed last month that it is investigating Clinton's device, with some conservatives arguing the Democratic presidential front-runner broke the law by implementing it.
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"From the same people who prorogued parliament and broke the law, this admission is hardly surprising" Naomi Smith, CEO of Best For Britain, told Business Insider.
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"I don't, but that won't surprise you," he said when asked whether there's any credence to Trump's claim that Comey releasing the memos broke the law.
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A federal judge found that Acosta and his team broke the law, but that hasn't meant any consequences for Acosta in his current job thus far.
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"As we've known all along, David Daleiden and his co-conspirators are the ones who broke the law, not abortion providers," said Saporta in a statement.
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Critics counter that it's not the US government's place to bankroll someone who broke the law, and that as unemployment skyrockets, American workers should come first.
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While Page wouldn't say why he provided the agent with the documents, he insisted it wasn't a big deal and didn't believe he broke the law.
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There is no doubt whatsoever that Trump broke the law by obstructing justice, as he sought to end investigations into him, his campaign and his administration.
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If Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, finds evidence that Mr. Trump broke the law, he will have decisions to make about how to proceed.
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The first, which is hotly contested by legal experts, is that President Donald Trump broke the law when he ordered an airstrike that killed Maj. Gen.
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I called on Congress to begin impeachment the day after the Mueller report was released in April, because it was clear Donald Trump broke the law.
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Last year a judge ruled that Tesla CEO Elon Musk broke the law when he tweeted that joining a union meant giving up Tesla stock options.
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Trump has called his former lawyer a "rat" for helping federal investigators, and Cohen said Wednesday that Trump is a racist "conman" who broke the law.
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Decision not to charge But on Saturday, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said that their investigation had to decide if officers broke the law.
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The plaintiffs in the case allege that by uploading of the photos without authorization from Splash News and Picture Agency, Hemsworth essentially broke the law. E!
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Cornyn argued that talk about a Trump self-pardon is a sideshow because the special counsel has yet to present evidence that he broke the law.
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She also contended the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "broke the law" by not immediately passing the August whistleblower complaint to congressional intelligence committees.
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Police, for their part, said they only arrested people who broke the law — specifically by blocking public roads and highways after they were told not to.
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But the report also presented pages of evidence that Trump attempted to obstruct the investigation, while stopping short of expressly concluding that Trump broke the law.
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Another accusation is that he broke the law by failing to declare his use of properties owned by Nissan in several cities, including Beirut, as a perk.
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That's why Clinton supporters truly don't care whether she broke the law with her email server, dropped the ball on the Benghazi attack, or most anything else.
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To be clear, the issue is not whether the president's leak broke the law — although the same indiscretion could certainly have landed almost anyone else in irons.
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His lawyers asked the justices to hold that the prosecutor, Doug Evans, who brought each case, broke the law by engaging in race discrimination during jury selection.
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If other developers broke the law we have a right to know, and the users whose data may have been compromised in this way should be informed.
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As such, the commission found probable cause on June 28, 2018, that Phillips broke the law when he declined to make a cake for the transgender woman.
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Strzok was a lead investigator on the FBI's probe into whether Clinton broke the law as secretary of state by sending official emails through a personal server.
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But Telegram never registered the sale, and as a result it broke the law, the SEC says, and may have to forfeit the $1.7 billion it's raised.
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Their private assessment contradicts President Donald Trump's allegations that former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice broke the law by requesting the "unmasking" of US individuals' identities.
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The commission voted 4-2 against approving a finding that Fox News broke the law and that that the FEC should try to settle with the company.
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The drivers allege the companies broke the law, claiming they had an obligation to give workers 60 days notice about a mass layoff, Reuters reported on Thursday.
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One adviser told the Post that the president does not believe his son intentionally broke the law, but that he may inadvertently end up in Mueller's crosshairs.
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In that filing, prosecutors directly alleged for the first time that Cohen was being directed by Trump when he broke the law during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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In February, a federal judge in Florida ruled that the Department of Justice broke the law by failing to confer with Epstein's victims about the agreement. Sen.
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As we continue to pursue violations of law, we should prioritize uncovering the role of corporate officers and directors and hold accountable everyone who broke the law.
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For months, federal prosecutors examined whether officials from both companies broke the law, including in their effort to reimburse Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney and fixer.
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What is now at issue is whether Uber executives broke the law with the $100,000 payment and should have quickly notified customers or officials of the discovery.
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But in the debate at WABC Radio's studios in Midtown Manhattan, Mr. Donovan sought to remind constituents that Mr. Grimm broke the law and lied to voters.
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Musk was told to be present at a meeting at the company's Fremont factory where a notice would be read to confirm that Tesla broke the law.
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Thiago Bottino, a legal expert at Fundação Getúlio Vargas University in Rio de Janeiro, said prosecutors had not described evidence that suggests Mr. Greenwald broke the law.
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This comes after Google agreed to pay $210 million to settle accusations that YouTube broke the law when it knowingly tracked and sold ads targeted to children.
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Still others say Mr. Hernandez, lauded for his charitable efforts and for taking part in civic groups in West Frankfort, broke the law and should be deported.
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However, the question of whether Clinton's server was breached is largely a separate one from whether she or her aides broke the law by mishandling classified information.
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Our camera guy misspoke and said a court of law will ultimately decide whether Trump broke the law ... that decision, at least for now, rests with Congress.
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Like the lawsuit filed Tuesday, these environmental groups Wednesday allege the EPA broke the law when it recently withdrew the Obama-era protections that had stopped the mine.
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The protest came as prosecutors investigate presidential aides and other officials to determine whether they broke the law to allow Choi to wield undue influence or gain financially.
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Comey reportedly asked the Justice Department on Saturday to publicly refute Trump's accusations because Comey said the claims are false and suggest that the FBI broke the law.
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The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals said it does, telling a funeral home it broke the law when firing Aimee Stephens for presenting herself as a transgender woman.
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" On Capitol Hill, Representative Steve Scalise, the No. 3 House of Representatives Republican, reacted to Lynch's announcement by proclaiming: "Secretary Clinton broke the law and lied about it.
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On Tuesday, the subpoena arguments became a classic separation-of-powers fight -- with questions of whether the President broke the law in his business dealings hanging over it.
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Wells Fargo will pay more than $22019 million to settle allegations that it broke the law by improperly repossessing cars from military service members, federal regulators said Thursday.
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" "These individuals broke the law and committed fraud in order to spread lies about Planned Parenthood and today they're going to be held accountable for breaking those laws.
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But legal experts say it will be difficult to make the charges of fraud stick because the NPA will be required to prove Gordhan intentionally broke the law.
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The Senate Ethics Committee admonished Menendez in April, saying he broke the law after he "knowingly and repeatedly accepted gifts of significant value" without proper approval or disclosure.
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The Trump administration broke the law when it missed a deadline last year in implementing the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ozone pollution rule, a federal court ruled Monday.
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In 2017, regulators in the UK determined that a partnership between Google DeepMind and that country's National Health Service broke the law for overly broad sharing of data.
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The judge ruled that Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, broke the law by obtaining confidential documents as they reported on the persecution of Rohingya Muslims.
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Arizona followed it for years under Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, a Trump ally who broke the law, abused civil rights and neglected other law-enforcement duties.
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WATCHDOG FINDS TWEET BROKE THE LAW: A congressional watchdog agency found Thursday that the Department of Energy violated the law last year with a negative tweet about ObamaCare.
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And so, if Cohen admitted he broke the law and testified that he did it at the direction of the President then, well, isn't Trump in deep trouble?
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It also marked a cultural turning point for many women, a confirmation that Mr. Weinstein's harassment of women went beyond boorish behavior: Prosecutors said he broke the law.
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This is all against the law, but to be criminally culpable, prosecutors would need to prove that he deliberately broke the law as opposed to simply being confused.
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But the Government Accountability Office has just answered one key question amid the allegations: The EPA broke the law when it built Pruitt's secret phone booth last year.
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Zeke Johnson, a program director for Amnesty International who was watching the proceedings, said the threat to kill one of Mr. Mohammed's children no doubt broke the law.
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For months prosecutors continued to investigate whether the Trump Organization broke the law in how it reimbursed Cohen but closed its case in July with no further charges.
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"You really have to take all the firm statutes and billing manuals and kind of mesh them together to figure out whether he broke the law," Stockler said.
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In case your memory's a little fuzzy, basically, Meredith broke the law when she filed a patient's care as if it was actually her daughter, Ellis, receiving treatment.
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The New York attorney general is spearheading a lawsuit against the E.P.A., contending the agency broke the law when it reversed course on the federal ban of chlorpyrifos.
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They cannot justify refusal to convict because there is no evidence that Trump broke the law when they refuse to allow in evidence that he did exactly that.
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"I called on Congress to begin impeachment the day after the Mueller report was released in April, because it was clear Donald Trump broke the law," Castro tweeted.
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The company must hold a meeting at its assembly plant in Fremont, California, and Musk or the NLRB will read a statement explaining how Tesla broke the law.
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He simply broke the law, likely making the well-founded calculation that the co-equal branch with whom he shares war powers will do nothing to stop him.
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If The Enquirer's parent company broke the law, it would be in violation of a nonprosecution agreement over its paying hush money to help President Trump in 2016.
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Finally, the Government Accountability Office concluded this week that Pruitt's office broke the law by spending $43,000 on a soundproof booth meant to up his security and privacy.
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Federal prosecutors are reportedly looking into whether President Donald Trump's inaugural committee broke the law by misspending some of the record money it raised from donations last year.
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According to ABC News, Comey asked the Justice Department on Saturday to publicly refute Trump's accusations because the claims are false and suggest that the FBI broke the law.
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"As we've known all along, David Daleiden and his co-conspirators are the ones who broke the law, not abortion providers," its president, Vicki Saporta, said in a statement.
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Still: even if Mueller couldn't charge Trump, it seemed at least possible that he would wrap up his investigation with a judgment on whether the president broke the law.
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The focus of the investigation has been on whether NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo used excessive force and broke the law in trying to arrest Garner for selling untaxed cigarettes.
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A federal judge in February found that federal prosecutors in the case broke the law in how they designed the deal and did not give alleged victims their due.
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Dan Scavino, the White House social media director, broke the law when he lambasted a Congressman on social media, the Office of Special Counsel said in a letter today.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller filed an 800+ page sentencing memo in which he said Manafort "repeatedly and brazenly" broke the law for over a decade, even after being indicted.
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That acted in a way, shape or form doesn't meet the standards of behavior that we expect, the level of integrity we expect, broke the law, became a criminal.
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" They concluded: "We formally request that the FBI open an investigation into Administrator Scott Pruitt's conduct to assess whether he broke the law, including criminal statutes prohibiting public corruption.
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If AMI did extort Bezos, that means it broke the law — which would put it in breach of a previous "non prosecution" agreement with U.S. prosecutors, Bloomberg News reported.
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In his statement to The New York Times, the Texas senator pointed to additional remarks he made in 85033, saying Snowden should be prosecuted if he broke the law.
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The President has the right to pardon but the facts are these: D'Souza intentionally broke the law, voluntarily pled guilty, apologized for his conduct & the judge found no unfairness.
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They claimed that the Antiquities Act doesn't allow presidents to protect water bodies, and that even if it did, the designation broke the law because it was too big.
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" The prime minister's office defended the prosecution of Mr. Rafizi by saying that he broke the law to make a political point and wanted to become a "political martyr.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's cabinet investigation group has found that vaccine maker Changsheng Bio-technology broke the law in manufacturing rabies vaccines, the state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday.
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Hensarling asked the special council to investigate whether Cordray broke the law by allegedly asking the mutual friend to tell a potential primary rival about his intention to run.
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The government denies it is cracking down on journalists, and says Rappler broke the law by granting an American investor the power to have a say in its operations.
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Yet, this all sounds like a far-fetched scenario, it wouldn't be the the first time hackers broke the law and hacked thousands of strangers' computers to do good.
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Prosecutors said the payments to Daniels and McDougal, which Cohen arranged, broke the law because they were made through corporate entities and were not reported on financial-disclosure forms.
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"Let's recognize that the vast majority of gun violence and gun killings in this country are committed by people who broke the law to get the gun," he said.
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Democrats rejected that idea on Wednesday, saying that if there's evidence showing the Clinton campaign broke the law, then the committee could look into it, according to the sources.
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Ultimately, Mr. Mueller declined to make a decision about whether Mr. Trump broke the law and Attorney General William P. Barr stepped in to clear the president of wrongdoing.
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" (Here's a step-by-step explanation.) Nothing in the documents suggests Mr. Kushner broke the law, and a spokesman for his lawyer said that he "paid all taxes due.
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It's not true that Schiff broke the law, and Trump has exaggerated Schiff's connections to the whistleblower, who spoke to members of Schiff's committee staff before filing the complaint.
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First, the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan watchdog, released a report that concluded the Trump administration broke the law when it withheld US security aid to Ukraine last year.
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The Government Accountability Office, Congress' nonpartisan investigative arm, said the Trump administration's effort to freeze the aid to Ukraine broke the law, since Congress had already appropriated the funds.
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You have broken a law of the United States and all of a sudden -- all of a sudden the mainstream media is concerned about those individuals who broke the law.
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In this case, it is alleged by plaintiffs in various lawsuits that Flint and MDEP employees broke the law by failing to properly treat water taken from the Flint River.
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But Gates, who says that he committed these crimes alongside Manafort, gives the prosecution the insider's account — the person who can attest to how and why they broke the law.
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A federal watchdog on Monday said the Environmental Protection Agency broke the law when it spent more than $43,000 on a new soundproof phone booth for its chief, Scott Pruitt.
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By removing those protections, the administration not only broke the law, it made clear that local people will have no voice in the management of our rivers, streams, and wetlands.
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An arbitrator who works for a private arbitration firm is the one who decides whether an employer broke the law and, if so, how much money to award the worker.
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But it is important for Americans to know whether or not the president is acting legally, and the Comey memo, and Gurulé's legal analysis, strongly suggests Trump broke the law.
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She recently pushed for Senate investigations into whether Facebook Inc broke the law when it resisted oversight on how Russians used its platform to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.
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When asked by a reporter if the White House believed that Flynn broke the law in his SF-86 letter, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said he didn't know.
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That inquiry is seeking to determine whether he broke the law by attempting to tamp down negative news coverage of the president in the run-up to the 2016 election.
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A big blow came in mid-April, when the Government Accountability Office concluded that the E.P.A. broke the law when it installed a $43,000 secure phone booth for his office.
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Paula Monjane from the Civil Society Budget Monitoring Forum, which coordinated the statement, said those who broke the law - on both sides of the transactions - should be investigated for corruption.
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" On March 23, the charge alleges, Tesla broke the law by "instructing employees they were not allowed to pass out any literature unless it was pre-approved by the employer.
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Earlier this week, lawmakers investigating Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, said it was likely he broke the law when he took money from foreign governments after his retirement.
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"As a hurricane prepares to devastate Texas, Donald Trump is more concerned with kicking people out of the military and pardoning a racist sheriff who broke the law," Massachusetts Sen.
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" In a statement, the Department of Justice dismissed accusations the case against Wong, Law and Chow was politically motivated, and argued they broke the law with "disorderly and intimidating behavior.
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A Quinnipiac University survey has shown that 85033 percent of voters believe Trump broke the law before taking office but only 45 percent believe he has committed crimes in office.
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A year before Britain leaves the bloc in March 220, allegations that the main campaign for leaving the EU broke the law have revived memories of the bitter referendum battle.
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Thus, Democrats are rolling the dice with whether or not 100 FBI agents will find that Clinton either broke the law, or circumvented the law but still jeopardized national security.
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On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled the Trump administration broke the law when it delayed updating a rule governing how drilling and mining royalties are calculated for federal energy production.
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Washington (CNN)James Comey defended releasing his memos detailing his conversations with President Donald Trump Wednesday in a CNN town hall, adding that he doesn't believe he broke the law.
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The nonpartisan congressional watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, conducted a review which found that the Trump administration broke the law when it withheld US security aid to Ukraine last year.
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Mr. Mueller's refusal to pass judgment on whether the president broke the law is one example of how the special counsel operated by rules ill fitted for the Trump era.
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He was sentenced by a judge to "conditional discharge," meaning he would not be required to serve jail time unless he broke the law over the course of 12 months.
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"He broke the law in our country," said Ri Yong-pil, a senior Foreign Ministry official, adding that Warmbier was returned (a week before his death) as a "humanitarian" act.
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The Bergdahl trade was enormously controversial, with an internal government watchdog later concluding that the Obama administration broke the law by releasing the Taliban prisoners without giving Congress proper notice.
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In the 1960s, he much preferred going after the civil rights and antiwar movements and their leaders, and his agents routinely broke the law in the name of the law.
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The complainant, who has not been publicly identified, told The Irish Independent newspaper that he was not offended by Mr. Fry's statements but nevertheless thought the actor broke the law.
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The US government's top internal watchdog has determined that the Trump administration broke the law when it withheld military aid to Ukraine last year after Congress had approved its disbursal.
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" The organization added that "the jury recognized today that those behind the campaign broke the law in order to advance their goals of banning safe, legal abortion in this country.
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The nonpartisan US Government Accountability Office on Thursday released a report that concluded the Trump administration broke the law, specifically the Impoundment Control Act, in freezing the aid to Ukraine.
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Senior intelligence officials described Joseph Maguire, who became acting director of national intelligence last month, as reeling from accusations that he broke the law by keeping the complaint from Congress.
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It also included a finding on Thursday by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) that Trump broke the law when he withheld military aid that Congress had designated for Ukraine.
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The Trump administration broke the law by withholding congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine last summer "for a policy reason," a top government watchdog said Thursday in a scathing report.
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Michael Flynn, the man who led the lock-her-up chants against Hillary Clinton, possibly broke the law by failing to disclose the big sums he got from foreign governments.
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Some liberal-minded scholars have opined that Trump broke the law when he froze the aid, because the $390 million in military help for Ukraine had been appropriated by lawmakers.
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A previous jury was unable to decide whether he broke the law by letting the men stay in a building near Ajo, Arizona, to recover from a two-day trek.
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An arbitrator who works for a private arbitration firm is the one who decides whether an employer broke the law, and if so, how much money to award the worker.
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The party, which came third in last year&aposs national election, wants parliament to determine whether Chancellor Angela Merkel broke the law by refusing to shut Germany&aposs borders to refugees.
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Benchmark accuses Kalanick of being "selfish" by packing Uber's board with "loyal allies," and that the ousted CEO broke the law by trying to pave the way for his own return.
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Accusing Kalanick of being "selfish" by packing Uber's board with "loyal allies," Benchmark alleges that the ousted CEO broke the law by trying to pave the way for his own return.
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The move comes two weeks after New South Wales state's gambling regulator said it was investigating a complaint that two Woolworths-owned pubs broke the law by giving gamblers free alcohol.
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"As we've known all along, David Daleiden is the one who broke the law, not abortion providers," said Vicki Saporta, National Abortion Federation (NAF) President and CEO, in a press release.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is urging regulators to investigate whether Mylan (MYL) broke the law by keeping schools from purchasing competitors to its EpiPen, which saw price spikes in recent years.
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The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee urged federal antitrust regulators on Monday to launch a probe into whether EpiPen maker Mylan broke the law by preventing schools from purchasing competing allergy treatments.
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Attorney Joseph Cammarata launched a blistering attack on Monique Pressley, Bill Cosby's lead attorney, saying she broke the law and violated the court's rules by representing Camille Cosby at her Feb.
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Trump's then Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke broke the law when he summarily reversed the Obama policy without addressing the facts found in the previous administration's study of the issue, Gleason ruled.
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But it doesn't mean that anyone else who allegedly broke the law with the ex-Chesapeake Energy co-founder and CEO — or others in the same industry — is off the hook.
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Mr. Myrstad said that the team decided to read and analyze the small print of selected apps over six months, and that it discovered that many of them broke the law.
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Panetta told MSNBC on Friday that it was a "stretch" to say transition officials broke the law, even though the Obama administration still held the reins of government at the time.
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The complaint, released in full Thursday, comes from an anonymous White House intelligence staffer who initiated a formal process to flag the call, which he or she believed broke the law.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's prime minister sacked Justice Minister Ahmed al-Zend on Sunday after he was criticized for saying he would jail Islam's Prophet Mohammad himself if he broke the law.
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Prosecutors said the payments to Stormy Daniels, the adult-film actress who said she slept with Trump, broke the law because they were meant to influence the outcome of the election.
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"The people behind this fraud lied and broke the law in order to spread malicious lies about Planned Parenthood," said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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It is commonplace for the F.B.I. to try to interview key figures before closing an investigation, and doing so is not an indication the bureau thinks a person broke the law.
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Is the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange justice against a man who broke the law, or is it a warning shot that journalism is under threat in the United States?
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The president touted Barr's decision not to prosecute Comey after suggesting in an earlier tweet Friday that the former FBI chief broke the law in the wake of a watchdog report.
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His testimony also revived questions about whether the president broke the law by failing to disclose that he had footed the bill for a hush payment to a pornographic film actress.
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He is now reading the report to see whether Mr. Mueller alleges that President Trump broke the law and to determine how much of the investigators' findings should be made public.
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The committee says it needs Trump's records to examine whether he has conflicts of interest or broke the law by not disentangling himself from his business holdings as previous presidents did.
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But hearing liberals talk about undocumented immigrants confuses him: The fact that their entering the country broke the law is somehow sidestepped, like a crude remark at a polite dinner party.
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"For these Dreamers, the only crime they were a part of was being brought here by their parents," he wrote in response to another user claiming that Dreamers broke the law.
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London (CNN Business)The UK Equality and Human Rights Commission has launched an investigation into whether the BBC broke the law by paying women less than men for the same work.
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Prosecutors seek to show that Manafort intentionally broke the law to hide income from the U.S. that he earned while working for Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's pro-Russian Party of Regions.
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Last week, a federal judge ruled that Ross broke the law by misleading the public about his department's attempt to add a question about people's citizenship status to the 2020 census.
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His testimony also revived questions about whether Mr. Trump broke the law by failing to disclose that he had footed the bill for a hush payment to a pornographic film actress.
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But federal investigators are now considering whether Uber broke the law with its Greyball program, an elaborate scheme to hide its activities from local government officials trying to enforce taxi laws.
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Malta is investigating whether Captain Claus-Peter Reisch broke the law and ignored instructions to take 234 migrants rescued off the Libyan coast to Libya — a charge echoed by France and Italy.
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Asked about Kofler's statement, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular briefing that China had rule of law and that those who broke the law had to "accept legal responsibility".
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After making a "thorough factual investigation" into whether Trump obstructed justice, Barr wrote, Mueller "ultimately determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment," neither asserting Trump broke the law nor exonerating him.
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The House Oversight Committee has also said it needs Trumps financial records to examine whether he broke the law by not disentangling himself from his business holdings, as previous presidents have done.
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Gaetz wrote it the day before Cohen gave damning testimony at the House Oversight and Government Reform committee that painted Trump as a racist con man who had repeatedly broke the law.
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The judiciary could determine that he broke the law and parliament has the power to impeach him, but experts on Iranian politics say power struggles are more likely to play out indirectly.
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During the campaign, Trump and Pence said Clinton's use of a private server broke the law and endangered national security - complaints that led their supporters to chant "Lock her up!" at rallies.
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" PhRMA added that Public Citizen glosses over the finding that 88 percent of the settlements were civil, not criminal, and had "little regard as to whether the companies actually broke the law.
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The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled earlier this month that the Trump administration broke the law when it tried to delay the methane rule's enforcement in June.
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The two senators add they specifically want Cruz to look at whether Trump, or anyone else who asks a foreign government to use a cyberattack against a political opponent, broke the law.
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The House Oversight Committee has also said it needs Trump's financial records to examine whether he broke the law by not disentangling himself from his business holdings, as previous presidents have done.
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Mr. Cohen's admission that he broke the law by paying off Ms. Clifford was a remarkable turnaround from the legal and publicity battle that he and his lawyers had waged against her.
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Yet while the searing photographs of children locked in cages left many Democrats and independents deeply dismayed, many Republicans were less sympathetic about the plight of migrants who knowingly broke the law.
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What precedent would it set if a president abused his power and broke the law but learned that he need only rile up his or her base to keep Congress at bay?
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History is kind to those who did so around the world in the last century, including in the United States, such as those who broke the law to fight for civil rights.
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He promised the American people to surround himself with the best advisers, but he surrounded himself with too many people who broke the law, even if he himself was not legally complicit.
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The FCC has officially and finally determined that the major wireless carriers in the U.S. broke the law by secretly selling subscribers' location data for years with almost no constraints or disclosure.
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The US Government Accountability Office, an independent watchdog, announced on Thursday that the White House broke the law when it withheld over $200 million in military aid from Ukraine over the summer.
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Two big shareholders have said they wanted Tidjane, architect of a sweeping three-year revamp at the bank he joined in 2015, to stay unless it was shown he broke the law.
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Kamala Harris and Richard Blumenthal have sent a letter to the Justice Department demanding a special counsel investigation into whether immigration authorities broke the law by failing to preserve the video footage.
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The House Appropriations Committee, which oversees Congress's spending authority, is already holding a subcommittee hearing on Wednesday about whether the administration broke the law by keeping some national parks open during the shutdown.
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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, pleaded guilty to eight counts of campaign finance violations and tax and bank fraud, admitting he broke the law at the direction of Trump himself.
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A federal district court jury in Brooklyn ruled that 5Pointz developer Jerry Wolkoff broke the law when he organized the overnight whitewashing of artists' work at the former 5Pointz building in November 2013.
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President Trump broke the law when he appointed Matthew Whitaker to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday, lawyers Neal Katyal and George Conway argue in a New York Times op-ed Thursday.
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The manipulation of the budget broke the law and under the constitution if such an offence was committed by the president he or she would be subject to a process of "political accountability".
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Also on Thursday, the SEC said it had found that 13 advisory firms broke the law by spreading false claims made by an investment management firm about the performance of its flagship product.
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Manley said Austin police have launched two investigations into the incident – an internal investigation to see if Freeman followed proper departmental procedure, and a criminal investigation to see if he broke the law.
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Mr Knezevic admits that he broke the law on campaign contributions, but says that is the only way to do business in a country where everything is a racket controlled by Mr Djukanovic.
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St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez broke the law when he shot and killed Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, a St. Paul suburb, during a traffic stop, Ramsey County Attorney John Choi said.
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Mnuchin and Lampert are co-defendants, along with the rest of the board, in a suit filed by Sears in April that claims they broke the law by stripping the company of assets.
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He also suspended a local measure permitting the expulsion of Venezuelans who broke the law, as well as a decree requiring Venezuelan immigrants seeking medical and social services to have a valid passport.
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The FBI has been investigating whether Clinton broke the law as result of personal email servers kept in her Chappaqua, New York, home while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
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Whether or not they broke the law, Ghosn's undisclosed compensation plans - effectively doubling his total Nissan package - could be politically explosive in France, especially if the government failed to act upon their discovery.
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Stephen Vladeck, a national security law expert at the University of Texas, agrees — and says that whether Trump's associates broke the law is likely to be just the opening act of this story.
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The street protest came as prosecutors investigate presidential aides and other officials to determine whether they broke the law to allow Park's friend, Choi Soon-sil, to wield undue influence and gain financially.
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Whether the company broke the law or not, some health privacy experts have called for a review of the policies under HIPAA that allow for companies to share health data without informing patients.
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Adding to the growing controversy over spying, the Federal Court of Canada ruled on Thursday that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service broke the law by keeping vast amounts of data for later analysis.
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The allegation is part of the House Oversight Committee's investigation into whether by taking money from US or foreign government officials at his businesses, Trump broke the law, according to the news site.
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A national spokesman for Planned Parenthood, Eric Ferrero, wrote in a statement that Daleiden and Merritt "broke the law to spread malicious lies" about the group in their effort to make abortion illegal.
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Britain's competition regulator said Aspen could also have to pay an additional 2.1 million pounds in fines as part of a wider package, if the investigation concludes that the company broke the law.
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The software controlling the car needs to have those slight variations in traffic law programmed in, especially since companies don't want negative media attention or a blemished record showing it broke the law.
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Mr. Consovoy essentially argued that the Constitution does not give Congress the power to investigate potential presidential corruption because determining whether someone broke the law is a function reserved for the executive branch.
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"It is extremely worrying that a person who broke the law in the United States is being brought to Romania and presented as some sort of hero of Christianity," he said on Wednesday.
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"The President has the right to pardon but the facts are these: D'Souza intentionally broke the law, voluntarily pled guilty, apologized for his conduct & the judge found no unfairness," he wrote on Twitter.
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The zloty has drifted this week ahead of a European Court of Justice ruling on Thursday on whether a bank in Poland broke the law when it sold mortgages denominated in Swiss francs.
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And the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan federal watchdog, ruled that the Trump administration broke the law by withholding security aid to Ukraine — an issue at the heart of the impeachment inquiry. 26.
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"As alleged in the indictment, the defendants broke the law to gain political influence while avoiding disclosure of who was actually making the donations and where the money was coming from," Berman said.
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The President and his allies had a strong interest in persuading Cohen not to coöperate with law enforcement, and Mueller's report raises the question of whether Trump broke the law in that effort.
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But, the report says, they ultimately decided there was not enough evidence to show they "wilfully" broke the law and they might have had problems proving the information offered on Clinton was really valuable.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee urged federal antitrust regulators on Monday to launch a probe into whether EpiPen maker Mylan NV broke the law by preventing schools from purchasing competing allergy treatments.
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" Lam said during her Tuesday address that any calls for amnesty — that the government would not follow up on investigation and prosecution of those who broke the law during the demonstrations — are "not acceptable.
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This intelligence assessment follows efforts from FBI director James Comey to squash the baseless claim because it implied the FBI broke the law in carrying out a president's surveillance bidding without a proper warrant.
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The only attack that's really gained any traction in the past six months is the notion that Clinton broke the law by using a private email server while serving as secretary of the state.
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All five Supreme Court justices agreed that his failure to declare the $3,000 monthly salary he earned—but left untouched in a foreign bank account—from an offshore company, Capital FZE, broke the law.
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LINCOLN, Nebraska (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday asked the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to investigate whether the state of Nebraska broke the law when buying four drugs to use in executions.
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In a letter, the lawmakers called on FBI Director James Comey and Channing D. Phillips, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., to probe whether Sessions lied to Congress under oath and broke the law.
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President Vladimir Putin, who is expected to run for what would be a fourth term next year, spoke out against the protests on Thursday, saying that anyone who broke the law should be punished.
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Not only in terms of his creating a system that broke the law in taking money away from students in loans but what he said about civil rights, what he said about LGBTQ right.
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Republicans have charged that Democrats purposely broke the law hoping to get more ballots into the counting pool in anticipation of a potential court ruling that might validate ballots that arrived past the deadline.
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Ramsey County Attorney John Choi said St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez broke the law when he shot and killed Philando Castile, 32, in Falcon Heights, a St. Paul suburb, during a traffic stop.
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" Suu Kyi has defended the reporters' jailing, saying at an event in Singapore earlier this year that they broke the law and their conviction had "nothing to do with freedom of expression at all.
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Washington-based watchdog group Common Cause filed the complaint alleging Kobach and We Build the Wall broke the law when Kobach emailed supporters of the nonprofit group asking for contributions to his Senate bid.
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How many conservatives feel: Critics of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program deem any citizenship benefits for undocumented immigrants to be "amnesty" for those who broke the law when they entered the country.
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The New York Times reported that senior American officials say FBI Director James Comey has argued that the Justice Department must correct the claim because it falsely insinuates that the FBI broke the law.
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Once, I contacted the state regulatory agency to report an operator who broke the law by spraying manure in fields while it was raining, an activity that poses a serious risk of water pollution.
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No reports so far have suggested that Rice broke the law by requesting the unmasking, which has been described as a routine intelligence procedure, and the president didn't offer new evidence that she had.
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Federal prosecutors said last week that the payments during the 219 presidential campaign constituted election-related spending and that Mr. Trump broke the law by directing his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to make them.
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And Mr. Cohen is under investigation by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who are looking into whether he broke the law in any of various business dealings, including the hush-money payment to Ms. Clifford.
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Across the Atlantic, two newspapers reported that President Donald Trump had recently floated pardon offers to government officials if they broke the law to help complete his widely-opposed border wall by Election Day.
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He might not have found any evidence that anyone broke the law, but he did find that almost without exception, everyone involved in the bidding process at some point transgressed the spirit of it.
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A recent Pew poll found a slight majority of Americans supporting Trump's removal from office, with 63% saying he has definitely or probably broke the law, and 70% concluding he has done unethical things.
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And the Government Accountability Office -- a nonpartisan body -- Thursday ruled that the White House broke the law in withholding millions of dollars in military aid for Ukraine — for what appear to be political reasons.
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They saw illegal immigrants as people who broke the law and any effort to give them legal status as the kind of amnesty program that the sainted Ronald Reagan once mistakenly signed into law.
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For the second straight day, The White House on Wednesday strongly suggested that former FBI Director James Comey broke the law when he shared information from memos about his conversations with President Donald Trump.
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LONDON — A British man who took his daughter out of school without permission to visit Disney World in Florida broke the law and must pay a penalty, the British Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
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Other recent attempts to enact immigration reform have been centered on granting amnesty to millions of people who broke the law and making our already dysfunctional immigration process even bigger (and, likely, more dysfunctional).
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And Musk must be present at a meeting at the Tesla plant in Fremont, California where he or someone with the labor board reads aloud a notice to employees that Tesla broke the law.
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But Comey does suggest the FBI will be looking to see if Clinton or her aides broke the law by sending classified information over the private server she used exclusively while secretary of state.
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"The people behind this fraud lied and broke the law in order to spread malicious lies about Planned Parenthood," Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement.
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Unfortunately these people broke the law and they need to be held accountable and the people that are in these countries should not be coming here because they&aposll be breaking the laws as well.
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According to a recent poll, more than half of Americans think she broke the law by exclusively using private email and a private server to conduct official business during her tenure as secretary of state.
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The Times reported that Comey requested that the Justice Department publicly rebut the president's allegations — which he posted on Twitter without evidence — because the claims are untrue and suggest that the FBI broke the law.
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The authorities say Rappler is not being punished, but broke the law in 2015 by granting American investor Omidyar Network the means to exercise controls over the news site, or veto powers on company decisions.
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"The people behind this fraud lied and broke the law in order to spread malicious lies about Planned Parenthood," said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America in a written statement.
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"These people broke the law to spread malicious lies about Planned Parenthood in order to advance their extreme anti-abortion political agenda," Eric Ferrero, a spokesman for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said Monday.
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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said they needed the documents to examine whether Trump faces conflicts of interest or broke the law by not disentangling himself from his businesses as previous presidents have done.
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Lawsuits Claim Disney Colluded to Replace U.S. Workers With Immigrants | The suits claim Disney and two consulting companies broke the law by using temporary visas to bring in foreign workers, knowing Americans would be displaced.
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Lynch said she met on Wednesday afternoon with Comey and the career prosecutors and agents who had investigated whether Clinton broke the law as result of email servers kept in her Chappaqua, New York, home.
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During the campaign, U.S. President Donald Trump and Pence said Clinton's use of a private server broke the law and endangered national security - complaints that led their supporters to chant "Lock her up!" at rallies.
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She said the case was handled according to the law, and while the government would do its best to defend people's freedom of demonstration, anyone who broke the law would have to face the consequences.
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"While the Clinton Foundation has received the highest ratings from independent charitable watchdogs, Donald Trump's use of foundation money to donate to the Florida Attorney General actually broke the law," Palmieri said in the statement.
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If she is indeed the person behind the leak, then perhaps she's both: someone who felt an understandable moral obligation to release information that is in the public interest, but who also broke the law.
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"These people broke the law to spread malicious lies about Planned Parenthood in order to advance their extreme anti-abortion political agenda," said Eric Ferrero, vice president of Communications for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain should consider prosecuting Volkswagen over the diesel emissions scandal, a committee of lawmakers said on Friday, accusing the government of being too slow to decide whether the German automaker broke the law.
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If the question is whether Donald Trump broke the law, the precise definition of obstruction hardly matters because the president has virtually unlimited constitutional authority to tell the FBI director how to do his job.
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The Democrats allege the retired Army lieutenant general broke the law by omitting the trip, according to this letter they sent to Flynn's former business partners requesting more information about his overseas travels and contacts.
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It says Vote Leave broke the law including by channeling money to a Canadian data firm, AggregateIQ, to use for targeting political advertising on Facebook's platform, via undeclared joint working with another Brexit campaign, BeLeave.
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has "significant doubts" that President Trump broke the law by reportedly asking then-FBI Director James Comey to let go of an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
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The Democrats allege the retired Army lieutenant general broke the law by omitting the trip, according to the letter they sent to Flynn's former business partners requesting more information about his overseas travels and contacts.
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's main opposition group broke the law when it sacked the mayor of Cape Town, judges ruled on Wednesday, in a further blow to a movement already split by the dispute.
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The report noted a pair of lawsuits await further action in the courts, and in one, the Herald said, women argue Acosta and other federal prosecutors broke the law in their handling of the case.
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Friday's wave of court filings in the Russia investigation and the federal probe into the Trump Organization increased the likelihood that President Donald Trump broke the law in the run-up to the 2016 election.
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"Mueller's testimony today underlined what was already clear: the President of the United States broke the law and would be under criminal indictment if not for the fact that he holds that office," Castro tweeted.
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Energy Department spokeswoman Shaylyn Hynes said in a statement that the agency disagrees that it broke the law, arguing that the department has responsibilities related to medical research that make health care within its purview.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chair of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee has asked the Justice Department to review whether former Wells Fargo CEO Timothy Sloan broke the law in giving "misleading" sworn testimony to Congress.
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Poker legend Phil Ivey was just ordered to return roughly $10 MILLION in baccarat winnings he pulled from an Atlantic City casino in 2012 ... after a judge ruled the way he played broke the law.
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And here's the thing: the case against Trump on obstruction grounds is very strong — stronger even than the evidence that the Trump campaign broke the law by colluding with Russian's campaign to influence the election.
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The ruling, handed down by the Tverskoi District Court in Moscow, held that Mr. Navalny, whom the police detained on Saturday, broke the law by holding an unsanctioned protest in the capital in late January.
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READ: Trump's White House broke the law withholding aid to Ukraine, GAO finds Rick Perry went to Ukraine instead — and at some point, he delivered the message to Zelensky about the investigations, according to Parnas.
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President Vladimir Putin, who is expected to run for what would be a fourth term next year, spoke out against last week's protests on Thursday, saying that anyone who broke the law should be punished.
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That could be because a criminal FARA charge requires showing a defendant broke the law "willfully," meaning he or she knew about the statute — at least in general terms — and intentionally sought to defy it.
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Washington (CNN)An individual who volunteered for a Brexit campaign effort said the organization broke the law, and in turn, is arguing the referendum vote "wasn't legitimate," according to the United Kingdom's Channel 4 News.
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A federal court ruled late Wednesday that the Trump administration broke the law when it tried this summer to delay an Obama administration rule related to greenhouse gas released through oil and natural gas drilling.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has proposed legislation that would increase the accountability of corporate leaders for their firms' misdeeds, whether they personally approved of the actions within their companies that broke the law or not.
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As he took office, Trump knew he was allowing a man to become his national security advisor who broke the law by failing to disclose that he took money from companies tied to foreign powers.
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In a separate case before the European Court, the ECB alleges Latvian authorities broke the law by keeping the country's central bank governor from fulfilling his role as an ECB policymaker because of bribery allegations.
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The Democratic Party in South Carolina has requested that state police probe whether the Republican congressman who took out a loaded gun during a meeting in his district broke the law, The Herald reported Monday.
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"You have someone [Kline] who completely broke the law and went against executive orders," Newbold alleges, while any of her infractions, she claims, paled in comparison and were for the benefit of security and efficiency.
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WASHINGTON — Michael D. Cohen's congressional testimony on Wednesday revived questions about whether President Trump broke the law by failing to disclose that he footed the bill for a hush payment to a pornographic film actress.
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But still, the question persists: If Cohen broke the law, and did so "in coordination with and at the direction of a federal candidate for office," can and will the president be charged as well?
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The House Oversight Committee has said it needs Trump's financial records to examine whether he has conflicts of interest or broke the law by not disentangling himself from his business holdings, as previous presidents did.
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On February 21, a federal judge ruled that Miami prosecutors, led by then-US Attorney Acosta, broke the law when they arranged a plea deal for billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2008 without conferring with his victims.
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Screenshot: Project VeritasBeyond the questionable journalistic ethics of exploiting people's desires for work and love, Project Veritas's tactics broke the law, says John Nockleby, a professor who specializes in privacy at Loyola Law School-Los Angeles.
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However, there were a number of specific transactions and accompanying actions by Price that raised eyebrows: Though there was no definitive evidence that Price broke the law, Democrats sought to stop his confirmation amid the controversy.
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"The stark contradiction between Facebook's public promises to mend its ways on privacy and its refusal to address the serious problems we've identified or even acknowledge that it broke the law is extremely concerning," he added.
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"Given that the ICO is saying that Facebook broke the law, it is essential that we now know which other apps that ran on their platform may have scraped data in a similar way," Collins said.
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"The stark contradiction between Facebook's public promises to mend its ways on privacy and its refusal to address the serious problems we've identified – or even acknowledge that it broke the law – is extremely concerning," Therrien said.
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The wannabe first lady was quick to deny she broke the law Thursday, but the photoshoot seems to place her working in the US in 1995—despite her having previously suggested she arrived a year later.
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Comey, who was appointed FBI director by Barack Obama in 2013, had urged Justice Department officials to refute Trump's claims because it falsely insinuated the Federal Bureau of Investigation broke the law, U.S. officials have said.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Australian subsidiaries of British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline and Swiss drugmaker Novartis misled customers and broke the law by promoting identical liniments as though they could treat specific ills, an Australian court found on Friday.
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André Rehbein Sathler, an economist who works for the lower house, said Ms. Rousseff's administration broke the law by failing to reimburse the banks for these expenditures, a move he likened to printing money with abandon.
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Democrats said Hicks' responses during the eight-hour session to questions from members of the House Judiciary Committee, who want to determine whether her former boss broke the law, were restricted to the point of absurdity.
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Chris Hartline, a spokesman for Mr. Scott's campaign, said the numerous problems in the counting are "certainly incompetence," and that a judge in Broward County found this week that some of them also broke the law.
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"You're essentially allowing parents to pass on to their children the benefits that they broke the law to obtain," said Dan Stein, the president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which supported Mr. Trump's decision.
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The FBI is investigating whether anyone in Clinton's operation broke the law as result of a personal email server kept in her Chappaqua, New York, home while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
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"The stark contradiction between Facebook's public promises to mend its ways on privacy and its refusal to address the serious problems we've identified – or even acknowledge that it broke the law – is extremely concerning," he added.
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Britain and Germany also broke the law by refusing to share information their national authorities had gathered while investigating "irregularities" concerning nitrogen oxide emissions from diesel cars made by Volkswagen and other manufacturers, the commission said.
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Acosta and his office broke the law, the judge said, when he didn't tell the victims about the plea agreement -- as prosecutors are required to do -- and misled them to believe Epstein's crimes remained under investigation.
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It's a previously unreported part of a broad examination by the House Oversight Committee, included in Democrats' impeachment inquiry, into whether Trump broke the law by accepting money from U.S. or foreign governments at his properties.
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They tried unsuccessfully to impeach him on various other charges, but finally rounded up enough votes for impeachment when he broke the law at the time by firing the secretary of War without consulting Congress first.
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Barr, who's been criticized for misleading the public on the contents of the special counsel's report, said this week he thought Mueller should have reached a decision on whether Trump's behavior broke the law or not.
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In a recent interview with CNN, the actor said it was a "gift" to shoot the film in Virginia where the Loving's story unfolded -- including the jail where they were held when their love broke the law.
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Washington (CNN)The Department of Housing and Urban Development broke the law when it spent about $2000,000 in 2017 for a new dining set and dishwasher for Secretary Ben Carson's office, according to the Government Accountability Office.
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Collins' full statement: Given that the ICO is saying that Facebook broke the law, it is essential that we now know which other apps that ran on their platform may have scraped data in a similar way.
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" Citing "senior American officials," The New York Times reported today that Comey has been working this weekend to convince the Justice Department to publicly dispute the claims, because "it falsely insinuates that the FBI broke the law.
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This week's turmoil has unfolded as the Democratic impeachment inquiry has raced ahead, acquiring damning testimony about an off-the-books foreign policy operation in Ukraine involving Rudy Giuliani that some alarmed officials feared broke the law.
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Flynn, who was fired after he misled Vice President Mike Pence about his contacts with the Russian ambassador, now faces allegations that he broke the law when he accepted payments from entities linked to Russia and Turkey.
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City council president Michelle Mosby is running a radio commercial reminding voters that Mr Morrissey broke the law in sleeping with a teenage girl—a feat about which he boasted in a text message to a friend.
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In April, he survived an impeachment vote after the Constitutional Court said he broke the law by refusing to refund some of the 240 million rand ($16 million) of state money spent on refurbishing his private residence.
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Meanwhile, just last week, the Government Accountability Office determined Carson's housing department broke the law when it spent $31,561 for a new dining-room set and nearly $9,000 for a new dishwasher for Carson's office, CNN reported.
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VX have settled federal and state charges that they misled investors in their dark pools, with Barclays admitting it broke the law and agreeing to pay $70 million, federal and New York state officials said on Sunday.
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Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom won one battle with New Zealand authorities when a Wellington court ruled the attorney general broke the law by refusing his request to be given all information about him held by public agencies.
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The UK's Electoral Commission has published the results of a near nine-month-long investigation into Brexit referendum spending and has found that the official Vote Leave campaign broke the law by breaching election campaign spending limits.
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The three talk to Wade about both his favorite president (George W. Bush) and his least favorite (Barack Obama), and why he thinks that Abraham Lincoln broke the law many times over and should have been impeached.
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In implicitly confirming that, yes, his chief of staff Reince Priebus did in fact interfere in the FBI's investigation of Trump's ties to Russia, the president suggested the disclosure, first reported by CNN, somehow broke the law.
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The Government Accountability Office ruled last month that another expense in Pruitt's office, the construction of a $85033,000 soundproof booth, broke the law that establishes the price cap because the agency failed to get prior congressional approval.
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Lorance&aposs supporters stressed that evidence in his favor had been withheld during his trial, and an initial investigation into Golsteyn&aposs case did not substantiate the accusation that his actions broke the law of armed conflict.
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Read more: Boris Johnson told to resign following Supreme Court defeat and become the 'shortest-serving prime minister ever'Read more: What happens now that the Supreme Court has ruled Boris Johnson broke the law by suspending Parliament?
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Whether FBI Director James Comey broke the law may hinge on whether he had political motivations or was merely doing his job by reviving Democrat Hillary Clinton's email controversy just days before the Nov.
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But Manafort's shadiness also means it's less likely he's being squeezed in pursuit of someone higher up — he may be being indicted simply because federal investigators think he broke the law in a significant and deliberate way.
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In the George W. Bush White House, the Office of the Special Counsel found that Karl Rove broke the law by coordinating appearances of cabinet members at political rallies for Republican candidates during the 2006 midterm elections.
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The attention the Debt Collective drew to the issue of student debt, including for those who took out loans to attend institutions that were fraudulent or broke the law, resulted in millions of dollars of loan forgiveness.
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WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) - The chair of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee has asked the Justice Department to review whether former Wells Fargo CEO Timothy Sloan broke the law in giving "misleading" sworn testimony to Congress.
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Conway said Sunday that she did not know if the person who wrote the op-ed broke the law, but she posited that any writer who would do such a thing might also have divulged classified information.
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As crowds entered Europe's largest soccer stadium Wednesday night, security guards confiscated masks of Barcelona's Argentine star Lionel Messi from supporters, apparently to ensure they could be identified on closed-circuit cameras if they broke the law.
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But they said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was wrong to press claims that they broke the law, a position the defendants adopted after a recent appeals court ruling limited the reach of insider trading laws.
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If Gates worked hand in hand with Manafort for a decade and is admitting that he broke the law -- and is willing to cooperate with Mueller's broader probe -- that leaves Manafort as a man on an island.
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While there is no doubt that he broke the law by lying to a federal grand jury and tampering with witnesses, Democrats nonetheless argued that his perjury and obstruction were not enough to remove him from office.
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In the weeks ahead, the story of what went on in Trump's conversations with his Ukrainian counterpart and whether he broke the law and flouted the most basic constitutional principles will be distorted in a political maelstrom.
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What's under investigation: The Senate Judiciary Committee and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are just starting to look at whether Trump broke the law when he pressured Comey to go easy on Flynn, and then fired Comey.
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On April 5th the state ethics commission had said that its own, separate investigation had found "probable cause" to believe Mr Bentley broke the law, mostly in relation to campaign-finance violations that it unearthed during its inquiry.
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Today is no different, with news coming straight out of Morton County, North Dakota: Jill Stein broke the law, and Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier intends on making the Green Party presidential candidate pay for her alleged crimes.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Thursday that a call by opposition leader Alexei Navalny to hold nationwide protests to back a boycott of next year's presidential election would be investigated to see if it broke the law.
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The appeals court in Abuja ruled that chief judge Walter Onnoghen can be tried by a code of conduct tribunal over allegations that he broke the law by failing to disclose the full extent of his financial assets.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A jury has decided that 1153Pointz developer Jerry Wolkoff broke the law when he whitewashed the longstanding graffiti mecca in Queens four years ago without notifying the artists who had contributed works.
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Congress doesn't investigate crimes, though, and Chaffetz' declaration that Flynn likely broke the law suggests he may have serious legal trouble and/or be cooperating with the FBI's criminal- and counter-intelligence probe of the same subversion campaign.
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And last week, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt broke the law when he denied a petition to ban chlorpyrifos, a common pesticide linked to developmental and neurological disorders.
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Instead, they literally stuff the tax reform bill with a lobbyist's wish list of goodies, as if the mounting evidence that the Trump campaign broke the law during the 2016 election has nothing to do with their party.
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday made the case for why former FBI Director James Comey broke the law, expanding on comments from the day before about how federal prosecutors should consider bringing a case.
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Scott Warren, 37, is appearing in his second trial this year after a Tucson jury was unable to reach a verdict in June on whether he broke the law by giving food, water and shelter to two migrants.
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Xinhua said investigators found Zhang had seriously violated party discipline and broke the law by allegedly giving and accepting bribes as well as possessing a huge amount of money, the sources of which he could not account for.
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"Another totally Fake story in the Amazon Washington Post (lobbyist) which states that if my Aides broke the law to build the Wall (which is going up rapidly), I would give them a Pardon," Trump wrote on Twitter.
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The US government's top internal watchdog concluded earlier this month that the Trump administration "broke the law when it withheld military aid to Ukraine last year after Congress had approved its disbursal," as my colleague Alex Ward explained.
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A Rasmussen Reports poll published on Tuesday finds that 2628 percent of likely U.S. voters say Clinton likely broke the law when she sent and received classified emails through her personal server while serving as secretary of State.
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Senior lawmakers said this week that Flynn likely broke the law by failing to request and receive permission to accept $45,000 to speak at a 2015 RT gala dinner at which he sat with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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In addition to accusations that Kline broke the law, Newbold claims he fostered an environment of toxic discrimination not just against women but against her in particular because of her short stature (she stands 4 feet, 2 inches).
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In December 2017, the previous commissioner found that he broke the law by accepting a helicopter flight for his family to a private island owned by the Aga Khan, the billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims.
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And just this morning, Trump tweeted a baseless accusation that James Comey — the former FBI director whom the president fired because of his role in the Russia investigation — broke the law by leaking classified information to the press.
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Given the dangers of sort of dooming people by virtue of their origin, what real-world conclusions do you think are valuable about a family like the Bogles, besides the sheer number of them who broke the law?
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Attorney General William Barr issued a summary of Mueller's report on Sunday, saying it did not find any evidence that Trump or his associates broke the law in an election that was marked by extensive interference with Russia.
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The allusion to Snowden may reflect a shift for Gates, who told Rolling Stone in 2014, "I think he broke the law, so I certainly wouldn't characterize him as a hero," adding that he had no admiration for Snowden.
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"The secretary thoroughly reviewed all of the information presented to him and made a determination about whether the facts presented justified a listing pursuant to the law," a State Department spokesperson said regarding the charge Tillerson broke the law.
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Federal prosecutors, including a current member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet, broke the law when they offered wealthy financier and accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein a plea bargain in 22007 that allowed him to get off easy, a judge ruled.
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Federal prosecutors, including a current member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet, broke the law when they offered wealthy financier and accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein a plea bargain in 153 that allowed him to get off easy, a judge ruled.
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The officers are then seen following Rush in their patrol car, where Ruggiero notes that he's still jaywalking, before getting out of the car and telling Rush he broke the law four times, each time he crossed the road.
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The House Oversight Committee claims sweeping investigative power and says it needs Trump's financial records to examine whether he has conflicts of interest or broke the law by not disentangling himself from his business holdings as previous presidents did.
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A Florida judge ruled in February 2019 that the team of Miami prosecutors led by Acosta broke the law when they hid the deal from the more than 30 underage victims who had allegedly been sexually abused by Epstein.
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"While the Clinton Foundation has received the highest ratings from independent charitable watchdogs, Donald Trump's use of foundation money to donate to the Florida Attorney General actually broke the law," read a statement posted on the Clinton campaign website.
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Federal prosecutors, including Acosta, not only broke the law, the women contend in court documents, but they conspired with Epstein and his lawyers to circumvent public scrutiny and deceive his victims in violation of the Crime Victims' Rights Act.
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The Western Yangon District Court on Tuesday held the first of several hearings to decide whether Wirathu should be formally declared a fugitive from the law, which requires a judge to rule there is evidence he broke the law.
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The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, alleges Puerto Rico broke the law when it repurposed $163 million from revenue streams meant to pay debt at the island's infrastructure, highway and other agencies.
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The court in Abuja on Wednesday ruled that chief judge Walter Onnoghen can be tried by a 'code of conduct tribunal' over allegations that he broke the law by failing to disclose the full extent of his financial assets.
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A Royal Commission hearing on Friday was told by a senior lawyer assisting the year-long inquiry that AMP may face criminal charges after it broke the law by charging customers fees without provide service and misled the regulator.
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Clinton gave a voluntary interview to the bureau in July 2016 during its investigation into whether she or her aides broke the law by corresponding through a private email server set up for her use as secretary of state.
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The obstruction investigation focuses on whether Mr. Trump broke the law by asking Mr. Comey to end the investigation into Mr. Flynn and whether he fired Mr. Comey to try to hinder the F.B.I. investigation into Russia-related matters.
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Attorney General William Barr issued a summary of Mueller's report on March 24, saying it did not find any evidence that Trump or his associates broke the law in an election that was marked by extensive interference by Russia.
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Nissan said that the executives whose pay issues came to light after Mr. Ghosn's ouster were "unaware that improper methods were used" to increase their compensation and that there was "no reason to suspect" that they broke the law.
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MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government has refused to release an internal review that found investigators broke the law in their search for 43 missing students, a conclusion that threatens the legal foundations of a case that has roiled Mexico.
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Scenarios for Trump's opponents are grim too: It may be too late for second thoughts, but Democrats must burnish their arguments about why Trump is not the people's' champion — not how many times he broke the law as president.
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FCC chairman Ajit Pai has sent a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, stating that the commission's Enforcement Bureau has found that US carriers "apparently" broke the law by selling the location data of their unknowing customers.
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But if there turns out to be scant evidence that Trump broke the law, then a fair legal mind would have to turn his attention to those who might have conspired to make it seem as though he did.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Hundreds of people joined a protest on Monday against Myanmar's police after the force broke the law by revealing the name of the child victim of a high profile rape case following the acquittal of a suspect.
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Compliance officers at the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) had evidence that syndicated mortgages were being marketed and sold in ways that broke the law, putting the savings of thousands of Canadian mom-and-pop investors in danger.
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This is a broad set of criteria — one that could, conceivably, include whether Trump broke the law when he allegedly pressured Comey to go easy on Flynn, a prime subject of the FBI's investigation at the time, and subsequently fired Comey.
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But he and Representative Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the committee, said on Tuesday Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn likely broke the law by failing to get permission to be paid for a trip to Russia in 2015.
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In 2016, the European Union decided that a sweetheart tax deal in which Apple routed its European profits through Ireland broke the law, saying the arrangement constituted illegal state aid as similar tax rates were not made available to Apple's competitors.
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So it will take some time to get to final resolutions with the government," Becket senior counsel Lori Windham said in a statement, adding that it was "a good sign that the government has admitted that it broke the law.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by some of Puerto Rico's bondholders, who had argued that the U.S. territory broke the law by defaulting on constitutionally-guaranteed debt despite having the money to make payments.
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Barclays and Credit Suisse have settled federal and state charges that they misled investors in their dark pools, with Barclays admitting it broke the law and agreeing to pay $70 million, federal and New York state officials said on Sunday.
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The Oregonian, the state's left-leaning newspaper, said in a January 2016 editorial : "The Hammonds broke the law and deserve to be punished" but said their sentence was excessive and that the president (then Barack Obama) "should consider" granting them clemency.
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Christie avoided saying that the Trump campaign broke the law, suggesting that people were getting ahead of the facts: "I think the thing that bothers me the most is that we seem to have a frenzy of people jumping to conclusions."
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For months, federal prosecutors in New York have examined whether company officials broke the law, including in their effort to reimburse Michael Cohen for hush-money payments he made to women alleging affairs with his former boss, President Donald Trump.
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Barclays and Credit Suisse are poised to settle federal and state charges that they misled investors in their dark pools, with Barclays admitting it broke the law and agreeing to pay $70 million, the New York attorney general's office said Sunday.
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But on the 77th Day of his presidency, Trump's biggest supporter on House Russia probe, Nunes, was pushed to the sidelines, the subject of a newly launched House probe himself into whether he broke the law by releasing classified intelligence.
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A U.S. appeals court on Friday said the National Labor Relations Board was wrong to rule that the owner of a Washington State ambulance company broke the law when he ceased giving workers raises and Christmas gifts after they unionized.
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The Justice Department this week was due to interview federal bank examiners in Charlotte, North Carolina, and ask whether low-level employees broke the law by opening accounts without customer knowledge and if company executives took part in a conspiracy.
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There was no doubt, the judge said, that he "broke the law" and had "crossed the line" for reasons that involved at some level both a desire for financial gain and zealous investigation and advocacy on behalf of indigent clients.
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Trump "argues that Congress is 'trying to prove that the President broke the law' and that that's something Congress can't do, because it's 'an exercise of law enforcement authority that the Constitution reserves to the executive branch,'" Conway and Katyal wrote.
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"For years, Kinsella, GSI's former CEO and owner, and Clark, a former British Airways executive, broke the law and invalidated the trust of the millions of people that use Terminal 7 each year in an effort to line their own pockets."
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And it also might be hard for Trump to duck criminal charges if Mueller or another prosecutor finds that the president also broke the law, given events that occurred during the Watergate era and the tenure of President Bill Clinton.
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He did say that based on his colleagues' reactions to his efforts there is not support for trying to bring up a "privileged resolution" to force a vote on the House floor on his charge that the President broke the law.
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Mylan slumped after a group of senators asked the Justice Department to investigate whether the company broke the law when it classified its emergency allergy shot EpiPen as a generic drug, which allowed Mylan to make lower rebate payments to states.
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Both lawmakers asserted that if the release of the slush fund information broke the law, then it should be viewed as an illegal effort to influence the United States presidential election in favor of Hillary Clinton by damaging the Trump campaign.
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The European rulings come as Uber has faced accusations of wrongdoing, including an inquiry by the United States Department of Justice into whether the company broke the law by deploying essentially a fake version of its app to evade law enforcement.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom won one battle with New Zealand authorities on Monday when a Wellington court ruled the attorney general broke the law by refusing his request to be given all information about him held by public agencies.
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In 2017, its UK subsidiary, DeepMind, was involved in a trial that broke the law in its handling of hospital records, and Google is also being sued for alleged inappropriate access to medical data from the University of Chicago Medical Center.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic broke the law by refusing to take in asylum seekers coming to the European Union during the chaotic summer of 2015, an advisory body to the bloc's highest court said on Thursday.
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A partnership between DeepMind and the UK's National Health Service to trial the app broke the law by giving the company overly broad access to records on 1.6 million patients, according to a 2017 investigation by the country's data protection regulator.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn likely broke the law by failing to get permission to be paid for a trip to Russia in 2015, the leaders of a House of Representatives committee said on Tuesday.
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Just last week, Mr. Cohen discovered that he is now the subject of a federal investigation seeking to determine if he broke the law by trying to tamp down scandals involving women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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As federal prosecutors in Manhattan continue to investigate whether Mr. Cohen broke the law by paying Ms. Clifford to stay silent about an affair she says she had with Mr. Trump, Mr. Avenatti has never once shut up about the case.
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UK Prime Minister was on a trip Tuesday to his native New York City when his nation's Supreme Court ruled unanimously that he broke the law by suspending Parliament for five crucial weeks as the Brexit date of October 31 approaches.
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Once it was revealed, Mueller's report presented evidence that over 1,000 former prosecutors have said would have resulted in obstruction charges against basically anyone else, although Mueller himself deliberately stopped short of reaching any conclusions about whether Trump broke the law.
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Earlier this week, for instance, the agency levied a nearly $1 million fine against a super PAC supporting Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign and a Chinese-owned corporation after concluding they broke the law barring foreign interference in US elections.
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MEXICO CITY — The final version of an internal review by the Mexican government into the conduct of investigators searching for 43 missing students has rejected an earlier report that found that the officials' mishandling of suspects and evidence broke the law.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is investigating whether Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke broke the law when he gave a speech to a professional hockey team owned by a political donor in June, the agency said on Tuesday.
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Secretary of State Ken Detzner, a Scott appointee, increased his oversight of Broward elections in May following a court ruling that found Snipes broke the law when she green-lit the premature destruction of ballots in a contested 2016 congressional race.
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She testified that while no one broke the law they crossed informal lines in Canada that are supposed to isolate prosecutors from politics by mentioning the potential political consequences for the Liberals of shutting SNC-Lavalin out of government business.
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The Government Accountability Office earlier this year found that Carson broke the law when he ordered the table set for his office and spent over $8,000 to install a dishwasher in his office kitchen without providing advance notice to congressional appropriators.
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Ultimately, Mueller declined to prosecute Trump Jr. because he said he could not prove that the president's son "knowingly" or "willfully" broke the law, and because it was extremely difficult to assess how much the opposition research would have been valued.
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I don't know if Trump University—a company Trump promoted but didn't have much oversight of—broke the law, and it also remains to be seen if all the sloppiness surrounding the Trump Foundation rises to the level of a crime.
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A report released late last month by Senator Elizabeth Warren documented 20 cases from 2015 alone in which corporations or their executives broke the law but got off with little or no punishment, even when people died as a result of the violations.
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The FBI has been investigating whether Clinton broke the law as result of personal email servers kept in her Chappaqua, New York, home while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, including whether she mishandled classified information on the servers.
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Ivan Velasquez, head of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), told reporters there was evidence that Morales broke the law when he was head of the conservative National Convergence Front (FCN), and that prosecutors had filed a motion to investigate him.
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In a letter Thursday to Congress, the GAO's general counsel said HUD broke the law when it obligated over $31,000 for the purchase of a dining set and nearly $9,000 for the purchase and installation of a new dishwasher and water treatment system.
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Only 15 percent said they had learned something that changed their view of Trump or the Russia investigation, and a majority of those respondents said they were now more likely to believe that Trump or someone close to him broke the law.
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Democratic senators Kamala Harris and Richard Blumenthal have sent a letter to the Justice Department demanding a special counsel investigate whether immigration authorities broke the law when failing to preserve surveillance video footage of a transgender detainee who died in ICE custody.
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If Mueller's approach is taken as a model, the Justice Department can investigate to their heart's content, but at the end of the day, they not only won't indict a sitting president, but they won't even say whether he broke the law.
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Credit-reporting company Equifax Inc said last week it would pay up to $700 million to settle claims it broke the law during a 2017 data breach when roughly 147 million people had information, including Social Security numbers and driver's license data, compromised.
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When you learn that the top two people at the Federal Bureau of Investigation were clearly dishonest and clearly broke the law, when you learn that you&aposve had -- I think going all the way up to the president, to President Obama.
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But his supporters' chants sprung from months of rhetoric by the brash real estate mogul insisting that Clinton broke the law by using a private email server during her time as secretary of state and should be barred from running for president.
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Democracy depends — and democratic systems survive — on the fair and neutral application of the law: You can't arrest people without good reason to believe they broke the law, and you especially can't arrest them simply because you see them as a political rival.
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READ MORE: Democrats want Mueller to just answer if Trump broke the law Trump kept it up with a third tweet, an unhinged riff that, because it was written by the president, will be preserved for posterity in the Library of Congress forever.
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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson broke the law when he ordered a $31,561 dining set and a $8,812 dishwasher for his federal office and failed to report it, according to a report published on Thursday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte's decision clears the way for the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia, who brought the case, to pursue interviews with Trump Organization employees and review financial records to learn if the president broke the law.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank said on Friday it has asked the EU's top court to rule if Latvian authorities broke the law by keeping the country's central bank governor from fulfilling his role as an ECB policymaker because of bribery allegations.
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Judge Haywood Stirling Gilliam Jr. of the federal District Court for the District of Northern California said Monday that Pruitt broke the law, and ordered him to publish the findings for almost all of the rest of the country by April 2628.
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During a CNN town hall on Wednesday, Comey said that he believes Trump is "just making stuff up" when asked if there is any credence to the President's claim that Comey's release of memos documenting his interactions with Trump broke the law.
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The Massachusetts Democrat and 2020 presidential contender on Wednesday rolled out the Corporate Executive Accountability Act, new legislation that would up the accountability of corporate leaders for their firms' misdeeds, whether or not they personally approved of the actions that broke the law.
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The conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty alleges the Wisconsin Elections Commission broke the law when deciding to wait up to two years, as opposed to 2202 days, to deactivate voters who may have moved out of state, the AP reported.
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"The stark contradiction between Facebook's public promises to mend its ways on privacy and its refusal to address the serious problems we've identified — or even acknowledge that it broke the law — is extremely concerning," Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien said in a statement.
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"The stark contradiction between Facebook's public promises to mend its ways on privacy and its refusal to address the serious problems we've identified -- or even acknowledge that it broke the law -- is extremely concerning," Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien said in a statement.
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The book then goes on to cover the time when Susan B. Anthony broke the law by voting, as well as recent events, such as the creation of Title IX, which among other things, allows high school girls to join sports teams.
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For more, click on Barclays and Credit Suisse have settled federal and state charges that they misled investors in their dark pools, with Barclays admitting it broke the law and agreeing to pay $21.01 million, federal and New York state officials said.
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They alleged that the whistleblower potentially broke the law by going to Congress before filing the complaint; that the committee's Democratic chairman had early access to all the whistleblower's allegations; and that the chairman collaborated with the whistleblower to draft the complaint.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Democratic U.S. senator on Wednesday urged the FBI to investigate whether billionaire investor Carl Icahn broke the law when he called for biofuels policies that would have benefited his investments while serving as an adviser to President Donald Trump.
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"Although the Office of the Inspector General's (OIG) investigation concluded the misconduct occurred on an extremely limited scope, the grantee broke the law and violated the spirit of national service," CNCS spokeswoman Samantha Jo Warfield wrote in a statement to The Hill.
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The governor, Eric Greitens, made the move to keep the AG, Josh Hawley, from pursuing an investigation into the possibility that he broke the law when he used a fundraising list from a non-profit to collect funds for his political campaigns.
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Either they don't remember how she lost between 6,000 and 58,000 absentee ballots ahead of the 2004 presidential election, or they don't care about the time she broke the law in 2016 and prematurely destroyed ballots that were subject to an ongoing lawsuit.
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Even if for some reason the emails turned out to be new (and it now looks like they weren't), there was absolutely zero reason to believe they would show the malign intent that you would need to demonstrate that Clinton broke the law.
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Set around the time of the 2008 financial crisis, the film draws a clear line between the greedy bankers who broke the law and preyed on innocents to fill their own coffers, and the strippers who are doing the same to them.
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The carriers already have argued against the finding that they broke the law, contending that the rules apply only when a phone is making a call, not when it's communicating with a network for purposes like sending data, according to the documents.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate impeachment trial on whether to remove U.S. President Donald Trump from office formally began on Thursday even as a congressional watchdog found that the White House broke the law by withholding security aid for Ukraine approved by Congress.
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Federal judge Haywood Stirling Gilliam Jr. of the District Court for the District of Northern California said Monday that Pruitt broke the law, and ordered him to publish the findings for almost all of the rest of the country by April 22019.
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Defense lawyers typically argue that admitting testimony from such witnesses is unfair, since those accusations have not been upheld by any jury, and could lead to their clients' being judged by their character rather than on whether they actually broke the law.
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The former Google engineers said in a statement Monday that they believe Google is engaging in "draconian, pernicious, and unlawful conduct" to stop workers from organizing, adding that they expect the NLRB to find that Google broke the law by firing them.
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"Put more criminals in prison, and there will be less crime on the streets," he told a local civic group in 1981, condemning what he perceived to be a system that placed too much emphasis on rehabilitating people who broke the law.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barclays and Credit Suisse have settled federal and state charges that they misled investors in their dark pools, with Barclays admitting it broke the law and agreeing to pay $70 million, federal and New York state officials said on Sunday.
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The order from Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit came after the judges gave the agency a two-week reprieve from its ruling earlier in July that the EPA broke the law when it tried to delay enforcement earlier.
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Asked to respond to the letter Monday, EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox referred to his statement a week earlier when the Government Accountability Office said the EPA broke the law when it spent $43,000 to install a soundproof privacy booth in Pruitt's office.
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Another politically damaging issue came to light during the lengthy congressional investigation into the Benghazi attack: accusations that she broke the law in her handling of classified information while corresponding through the private email server for her government work as secretary of state.
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Perhaps the biggest remaining questions are whether Mueller will seek a subpoena for Trump's testimony, which would require formal signoff from his boss at DOJ, and what to do if the investigation determines Trump broke the law during the campaign or as president.
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A divided U.S. appeals court on Monday said the National Labor Relations Board erred in finding that Mercedes-Benz's U.S. subsidiary broke the law by prohibiting workers from distributing pro-union flyers in rooms they used both during work and down time.
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The President's son-in-law and adviser's low tax bills resulted from a common tax-minimizing maneuver, and nothing in the documents suggests Kushner or his company at the time broke the law, the Times reported, citing confidential documents that it reviewed.
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Mr. Comey, who made the request on Saturday after Mr. Trump leveled his allegation on Twitter, has been working to get the Justice Department to knock down the claim because it falsely insinuates that the F.B.I. broke the law, the officials said.
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In a letter late on Monday, prosecutors said they and Nike had already turned over 3,360 pages of documents to Avenatti, and the added materials he wanted were irrelevant to his knowledge or state of mind when he allegedly broke the law.
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Occupy, as journalist Sarah Jaffe wrote in Necessary Trouble, her chronicle of this decade's social movements and uprisings, gave "outrage a location," using the occupation to prove police were on the side of bankers—of financial institutions who themselves broke the law.
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Washington (CNN Business)Google has agreed to pay a record $170 million penalty to settle accusations that YouTube broke the law when it knowingly tracked and sold ads targeted to children, the Federal Trade Commission and the state of New York said Wednesday.
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While some of the so-called pipe turners in the coordinated attacks were convicted of felonies and sent to prison, Girling noted, others were allowed to argue that they broke the law to protect fellow citizens from the impacts of climate change.
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Scott Warren, 37, appeared on Tuesday in his second federal felony trial this year after a Tucson jury was unable to reach a verdict in June on whether he broke the law by giving food, water and shelter to two Central American migrants.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The United States must stand with Saudi Arabia as a key security partner, a U.S. State Department official said on Thursday when asked about an English court ruling that Britain broke the law by allowing certain arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
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Marijuana advocates like Matt Simon, New England political director for the Marijuana Policy Project, cheered the new bill, which Scott previously vetoed in May, asking for stricter penalties for people who broke the law and strengthened provisions to keep weed away from children.
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McCabe has told colleagues that he too is a potential witness in the probe of whether Trump broke the law in trying to thwart the FBI's investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
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"Sprint knew exactly how New York sales tax law applied to its plans—yet for years the company flagrantly broke the law, cheating the state and its localities out of tax dollars that should have been invested in our communities," Underwood said in a statement.
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A U.S. appeals court on Thursday said a Long Island nonprofit broke the law by requiring workers to sign an agreement that barred them from discussing wages and talking to the press after its chief executive was accused of using state funding for personal expenses.
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Over a few hours Thursday morning, Trump spread at least 21 lies and falsehoods about the Russia investigation, Mueller's findings, the cost of the probe, and the legal restrictions that Mueller faced when grappling with the possibility of a President who broke the law.
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Instead, if a court determines Apple acted in nefarious ways or broke the law, those eligible for damages — that means people with the affected phones — would be contacted and told they are eligible to be compensated for their damages, for example, a battery replacement.
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The UK's health data watchdog, the National Data Guardian (NDG), has published correspondence between her office and the national privacy watchdog which informed the ICO's finding in 2017 that a data-sharing arrangement between an NHS Trust and Google-owned DeepMind broke the law.
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Kerney, who represented Davis alongside attorney Joshua Kersey, said that by continuing to call her using an ATDS even after she told the company not to, Conn's violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)—a law restricting robocalls and telemarketing—and therefore broke the law.
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On January 17, a judge will decide if officer Thomas Gaffney, former officer Joseph Walsh, and former detective David March broke the law when they filed reports supporting Van Dyke's account of the shooting, and allegedly hampered other investigator's efforts to uncover the truth.
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The Justice Department investigation This is a broad set of criteria — one that could, conceivably, include whether Trump broke the law when he allegedly pressured Comey to go easy on Flynn, a prime subject of the FBI's investigation at the time, and subsequently fired Comey.
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"I just can't see him breaking laws in America, let alone going to a country that might be more difficult to navigate if he broke the law, and certainly not breaking a law of espionage," Whelan's brother David told the Detroit Free Press this week.
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"They broke the law on public finance management under the guise of carrying out legitimate commercial transactions, colossal amounts were unjustifiably and illegally paid out through a well choreographed scheme by government officers in collusion with private individuals and institutions," Haji told a news conference.
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The circumstances surrounding Cohen's guilty pleas suggest that special counsel Robert Mueller and Southern District of New York federal prosecutors believe Cohen and Trump broke the law in paying hush money to former Playboy model Karen McDougal and porn star Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels.
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" Although prosecutors have not brought conspicuous evidence of racial animus on Mr. Slager's part, they have depicted him as an officer who broke the law and local policies, including one that stipulates that "the preservation of life must always take priority over apprehension of criminals.
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In addition, in cases involving critically important matters of public policy — including this Russian investigation case which involves national security, foreign affairs and a federal election — the congressional investigation can be more important in the long run than deciding who, if anyone, broke the law.
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" A little more than an hour later, Castro said about the same: "Mueller's testimony today underlined what was already clear: the President of the United States broke the law and would be under criminal indictment if not for the fact that he holds that office.
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While Cohen's guilty plea has no bearing on the question whether the Mueller investigation was properly instigated, claims that the Mueller investigation is a "witch hunt" will be further undermined as yet another individual connected to the Trump campaign admits that he broke the law.
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PARIS, June 20 (Reuters) - The United States must stand with Saudi Arabia as a key security partner, a U.S. State Department official said on Thursday when asked about an English court ruling that Britain broke the law by allowing certain arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
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It is one of the oddities of the Scarcella probe that even though the unit has asked judges eight times to reverse guilty verdicts that Mr. Scarcella helped obtain, its members have asserted, until recently, that he never broke the law or committed misconduct.
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An English court ruled in June that Britain broke the law by allowing arms sales to Saudi Arabia that might have been deployed in the war in Yemen, after activists said there was evidence the weapons had been used in violation of human rights statutes.
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An English court ruled in June that Britain broke the law by allowing arms sales to Saudi Arabia that might have been deployed in the war in Yemen, after activists said there was evidence the weapons had been used in violation of human rights statutes.
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The place was filled with the smells of roast pork and rice and beans, and he was fascinated by the chatter of his relatives and their friends, who wore expensive clothes, indulged in alcohol and marijuana and sometimes broke the law, friends and relatives said.
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In court papers filed in federal court in San Francisco, the conservation groups argued that the BLM broke the law by failing to analyze the harm drilling would cause to groundwater supplies, climate change, and the potential for earthquakes caused by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
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For his review, Mr. Durham has enlisted Nora R. Dannehy, a veteran federal prosecutor who worked with him in Connecticut and led a two-year inquiry into whether department officials under President George W. Bush broke the law in firing several United States attorneys.
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When, for example, Mr. Trump accused former President Barack Obama of tapping his phones, he forced the F.B.I. into an unappealing choice: Let the accusation slide, though it implies the bureau broke the law, or rebuke the president and risk the appearance of playing politics.
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Meanwhile, financial stocks slipped into the red, led by a 0.9% drop in Westpac Banking Corp, which is set to be investigated by the country's banking regulator on whether the bank directors and executives broke the law as part of the bank's money laundering scandal.
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But according to a lawsuit filed against the Trump administration by veterans advocacy groups in April, Trump broke the law by disregarding the order of succession at the Veterans Affairs Department and installing Wilkie, who is not related to this reporter, atop the agency.
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BEIJING — Five law enforcement officers in Beijing will not stand trial over the death of a Chinese environmentalist, even though prosecutors found that they broke the law by misusing force, delaying medical care and lying about the circumstances of his death, officials said on Friday.
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What follows is a user-friendly guide designed to answer the four biggest questions swirling about the Trump breach: What literally happened, why it's a big deal, whether Trump broke the law, and how, if it all, he might suffer consequences for his actions.
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Meanwhile, investment news site ThinkAdvisor wrote people familiar with the matter say the US Department of Justice has launched an investigation into whether three top Equifax executives broke the law by selling off over a million dollars in stock after the company learned of the hack.
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But it was understood that part of the ethnographer's project was a suspension of belief in conventional assumptions about deviant behavior, and that if you wanted to understand more fully how and why people broke the law, you had to see their world from the inside.
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A campaign that had seemed headed for certain defeat grabbed gratefully onto the late October gift, immediately using the revelations to bolster the Republican nominee's theme that Clinton is a crook, broke the law with her email server and is symptomatic of a corrupt political status quo.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. consumer watchdog on Thursday said it had fined a group of New York-based debt-collection firms and their two owners more than $60 million to settle claims they inflated consumer debts and broke the law when attempting to collect the money.
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Lamar Smith and the majority members on his committee into climate change research in the federal government, as well as activist groups and now states that are looking into whether Exxon broke the law by misleading investors and the public about the true causes of global warming.
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"I just can't see him breaking laws in America, let alone going to a country that might be more difficult to navigate if he broke the law, and certainly not breaking a law of espionage," Whelan's brother David David told the Detroit Free Press last month.
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Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney, told a federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday that he broke the law at Trump's behest during the 2016 campaign, paying off two women with whom the president had extramarital affairs so that they wouldn't damage his electoral prospects.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain broke the law by allowing arms sales to Saudi Arabia that might have been deployed in the war in Yemen, an English court ruled on Thursday after activists said there was evidence the weapons had been used in violation of human rights statutes.
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And on Tuesday the OSC agreed that Haley broke the law: OSC has concluded that Ambassador Haley violated the Hatch Act when she retweeted President Trump's June 19 message about Ralph Norman on an account that repeatedly invoked her official position as Ambassador to the United Nations.
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Lenders could more safely harvest a few dollars in fees from the checking account of each customer, even when doing so broke the law, when mandatory arbitration clauses in the fine print prohibit customers from joining together in a class action to get their money back.
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The materials were seized on the orders of prosecutors in Manhattan who have been trying to determine whether Mr. Cohen broke the law in any of his business projects, including hush-money payments he made to two women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Ohlin said the seniority of those questioned points to Mueller reaching a defining moment at least in the obstruction of justice portion of an investigation that is also considering whether anyone in the Trump campaign broke the law by cooperating with a Russian election meddling effort.
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Judge allows emoluments case to move ahead As New York looks into whether the Trump Foundation broke the law, criminal charges remain unlikely This campaign is one of the latest examples of how charities can get into trouble when their donors are accused of morally reprehensible behavior.
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The news comes as Democrats are broadening their impeachment probe to focus on a range of matters, including potential violations of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution and reports that the President dangled pardons to officials if they broke the law to carry out his immigration policies.
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On Thursday, a federal judge ruled that prosecutors working under former Miami U.S. attorney Alex Acosta, now Trump's secretary of labor, broke the law in the process of making an inexplicably lenient plea deal with the financier Jeffrey Epstein, who'd been accused of sexually abusing underage girls.
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After settling with Deutsche Bank for $143 million in 2016, the investors obtained 350,000 pages of documents and 75 audio tapes, including chat messages, that they said offered "smoking gun" evidence that the five other banks broke the law despite not being part of the fix.
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"I just can't see him breaking laws in America, let alone going to a country that might be more difficult to navigate if he broke the law, and certainly not breaking a law of espionage," Whelan's brother David Whelan told the Detroit Free Press earlier this week.
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WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. consumer watchdog on Thursday said it had fined a group of New York-based debt-collection firms and their two owners more than $60 million to settle claims they inflated consumer debts and broke the law when attempting to collect the money.
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A federal judge on Tuesday stayed a lawsuit claiming a large hospital system broke the law by refusing to pay for a transgender nurse's sex reassignment surgery, saying she would wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether federal law barring sex discrimination applies to transgender people.
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The report was also at odds with Greene's case on a fundamental level: It described the operation as an FBI-sanctioned plot in which Cuspert was duped by a spy, not as the work of a rogue employee who broke the law and betrayed her country in the process.
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The televised hearings mark a crucial phase in an investigation conducted thus far behind closed doors, as Democrats seek to swing public opinion — and by extension, that of Republicans — behind the central inference of their impeachment inquiry: that Trump broke the law and should be removed from office.
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ACLU attorneys and other critics have questioned how the state obtained the drug, according to The Guardian, including whether state officials broke the law to obtain it or whether the multibillion-dollar drug distribution company Cardinal Health ignored evidence the drug sales were intended to be used for executions.
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The George W. Bush White House faced its own problems, with the Office of Special Counsel ruling that the Office of Political Affairs, which was overseen by Karl Rove, broke the law by coordinating appearances of cabinet members at political rallies for Republican candidates during the 2006 midterm elections.
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Some of the articles have nothing to do with the headline-grabbing office expenses, but, unlike the expenses, involve a debatable legal question: whether the justices broke the law by approving higher-than-allowed payments to retired circuit judges who filled in on the bench in their absences.
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Prosecutors have been eager to get their hands on the documents and data in order to pursue a stalled investigation into whether Mr. Cohen broke the law in various business dealings, including two hush-money payments he made to women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Ending a trial that explored the question of whether graffiti, despite its transient nature, should be recognized as art, a jury found on Tuesday that a New York City real estate developer broke the law when he tore down the so-called 5Pointz complex in Queens three years ago.
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London (CNN)In the months since news broke that the Trump administration temporarily withheld $400 million in military aid to Ukraine, the report on Thursday by the Government Accountability Office that the White House broke the law by its actions will rank as one of the biggest bombshells.
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Seizing boxes of documents and about a dozen cellphones, iPads and computers, the agents were looking for evidence that Mr. Cohen broke the law in his wide-ranging business deals — among them, hush-money payments that he made to women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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She escaped criminal charges from the FBI earlier this month, when Director James Comey laid out a searing catalog of offenses by Clinton that many Republicans interpreted as bald-faced proof that the former secretary not only broke the law but lied to the public about her email practices.
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Though Cruz wants people to believe it was no big deal, the US government's top internal watchdog concluded earlier this month that the Trump administration "broke the law when it withheld military aid to Ukraine last year after Congress had approved its disbursal," as my colleague Alex Ward explained.
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The committee will look into Trump's involvement in hush money payments to two women who allege past extramarital affairs with him before the 2016 election, as well as recent reports that Trump offered to pardon officials if they broke the law during the construction of his border wall.
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McCabe has told colleagues that he too is a potential witness in the probe of whether Trump broke the law by trying to thwart the FBI's Russia investigation and the investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
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The Trump team fights back in the brief against the multiple investigations being conducted into the administration by congressional Democrats -- the Oversight Committee, in this instance -- saying that Congress is "trying to prove that the President broke the law" and the Oversight Committee's subpoena of Trump's accountants exceeds Congress' constitutional authority.
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Attorneys general from at least 20 states are opening a joint investigation into whether opioid manufacturers broke the law while marketing and selling their wares, "I want to know whether drug companies, seeking higher profits, have recklessly and unlawfully pushed addictive opioids," Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said in a statement.
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While there's no evidence that Trump broke the law before the election or since, his thickening legal challenges will show whether the evasions and shifting stories that helped him reinvent politics can withstand the more rigid codes of the rule of law and the will of the voters over time.
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Trump voters first bonded with their champion over immigration, and Trump seems to be confident that his argument that the rule of law must be implemented and that the children are being used as pawns by parents who broke the law by crossing the border will appeal to his coalition.
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And it seems like we end up with the same problem that popped up after the deaths of Eric Garner, John Crawford, Tamir Rice, and many more: When it comes to police, the problem is often what they can legally get away with — not that they explicitly broke the law.
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The F.B.I. interviewed Hillary Clinton on Saturday morning for its investigation into whether she or her aides broke the law by corresponding through a private email server set up for her use as secretary of state, a controversy that has dogged her presidential campaign and provided fodder for her political rivals.
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GOP leaders and key committee chairmen are making clear that they believe there is no reason to probe whether the President broke the law in engaging in a scheme to hide payments made to two women to keep their stories quiet in the days running up to the 2016 elections. Sen.
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More than a year after a Motherboard investigation revealed that wireless carriers were collecting and selling user location data to often dubious data brokers who then sold it to bounty hunters, the head of the FCC is finally acknowledging that at least one and possibly several wireless carriers broke the law.
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People familiar with the report told the Los Angeles Times that the contents of the report will not only exonerate the FBI but also largely dismiss claims from the Trump administration and its allies that the federal agency broke the law in search of evidence and purposely went after Trump's campaign.
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While the Americans who are skeptical of immigration don't draw a strong distinction between legal and unauthorized immigrants, the idea that unauthorized immigrants broke the law (or, as the term "sanctuary cities" implies, are living outside it) makes it easy for immigration hawks to connect unauthorized immigration in particular to crime.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - A Democratic U.S. Senator on Wednesday urged the FBI to launch a criminal probe into whether billionaire investor Carl Icahn broke the law when he called for a change in the federal biofuel program that would have enriched him personally while he was an adviser to President Donald Trump.
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Republican attorney and former White House ethics lawyer Richard W. Painter claimed that the FBI director "abused" his power and broke the law by sending a letter to congress saying that the FBI is taking additional "investigative steps" into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server due to newly uncovered emails.
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Lawmakers have been calling for stricter legislation to protect sensitive consumer data following high profile breaches at companies including Equifax Inc and American Express Co. Equifax has agreed to pay up to $700 million to settle claims it broke the law during a massive 2017 data breach and to repay harmed consumers.
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Venus broke the law on June 9 by entering an intersection in Palm Beach County, and she failed to yield the right of way, blew through a red light, drove too fast while distracted, and recklessly created a situation where the accident was unavoidable ... this according to the lawsuit obtained by TMZ Sports.
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"We formally request that the FBI open an investigation into Administrator Scott Pruitt's conduct to assess whether he broke the law, including criminal statutes prohibiting public corruption," reads the letter, signed by six Democratic members of Congress, which notes that federal law prohibits public officials from using their positions for private gain.
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But based on his views of executive power and his conservative social and political ideology, it was not entirely a surprise that Mr. Barr would side with Mr. Trump against those who argued that he broke the law in his efforts to undermine Mr. Mueller's investigation of his campaign's ties to Russia.
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On Thursday, we reported that the Department of Justice is investigating whether or not Uber broke the law by using its Greyball tool, a piece of software I uncovered back in March that essentially let Uber escape the hands of the law in cities they were not yet allowed to operate within.
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Government Accountability Office says the White House broke the law on Ukraine aid Just as the events above were getting going, the Government Accountability Office -- Congress' nonpartisan investigative arm -- issued a legal opinion Thursday that the Trump administration had broken the law by withholding millions in military and security aid from Ukraine.
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And while there are certainly some U.S. attorneys and state attorneys general out there who would relish the chance to take on the president, that leaves a question unanswered: If the aim is to prosecute the president like "anyone else" who broke the law, just who, exactly, is being invoked as "anyone else"?
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"Hundreds of thousands of students were defrauded and cheated by predatory colleges that broke the law, but today's report confirms Secretary DeVos tried to shirk her responsibility to these students and shut down the borrower-defense program, leaving them with nowhere to turn," said Senator Patty Murray, the senior Democrat on the Education Committee.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump made a big accusation on Wednesday in an interview with the New York Times: Former Obama Administration national security adviser Susan Rice likely broke the law in requesting the names of Trump campaign officials caught up in the broader surveillance of Russian officials seeking to meddle in the 2016 election.
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Given its explosive mix of money, sex and presidential politics, the case engulfing Mr. Cohen — an investigation into whether he broke the law by suppressing scandals about women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump — was almost certain to provoke a pushback and present a challenge to any judge called upon to manage it.
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Corruption rampant He was candid in describing how he got by, saying that, in his former job as a police officer he "would turn a blind eye to people who broke the law but gave me money," and that he would threaten them with jail time if they didn't pay him the requested bribe.
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" Kellyanne Conway, the president of Keep the Promise I, which is leading a string of allied super PACs backing Mr. Cruz, said that the "Gang of Eight amnesty deal was a pivotal point for senators to draw a line in the sand on their positions on the crucial issue of rewarding those who broke the law.
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Michael Flynn, Trump's ex-national security adviser, probably broke the law when he failed to disclose more than $45,000 in payments from Russia for a speech he gave on Russian state TV. Meantime, ex-acting Attorney General Sally Yates will testify next month before a Senate committee that's looking into Russian interference in last year's election.
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He had to go over and say hi to Attorney General Loretta Lynch when they were both at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport earlier this week, even though her Justice Department is investigating whether Hillary Clinton broke the law by setting up a private email server in her home during her tenure as secretary of state.
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The FBI did not find evidence that Cheryl Mills broke the law in relation to Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's personal email server, FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday.
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A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, investigating whether Planned Parenthood officials broke the law by selling fetal body parts not only cleared the officials of wrongdoing, but also, in a stunning act of legal jujitsu, indicted two pro-life activists who created the video that led to the grand jury investigation in the first place.
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Just to mention some of the most outrageous points: The politicians currently in jail awaiting trial are there, not because of their opinions – that is not a cause for incarceration in Spain – but rather because they broke the law; they sought to organize an illegal referendum against both Spanish and Catalan laws, and against court orders.
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A federal judge ruled Thursday that federal prosecutors, including current Labor Secretary Alexander AcostaAlex Alexander AcostaThree more Epstein accusers sue estate Barr removes prisons chief after Epstein death Feds face mounting pressure over Epstein's death MORE, broke the law by making a plea deal with Jeffrey Epstein — who was accused of molesting numerous girls — without conferring with his victims.
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Connecticut Attorney General William Tong (D) asserted Tuesday that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE broke the law by declaring a national emergency over the border late last week.
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Read more: Tesla just released a big software update that allows its cars to drive themselves in parking lotsThe ruling has called on the electric carmaker to hold a meeting at its California assembly plant where either Musk or his agent must inform the workers that the National Labor Relations Board has concluded that Tesla broke the law.
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All five have faced or are facing trials in the states where their actions took place, and in each, they have sought to use the "necessity defense" — to argue that they broke the law because they had exhausted all legal means to reduce or eliminate a clear and present danger, namely the threat of climate change.
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Sen. John CornynJohn CornynNadler gets under GOP's skin Restlessness, light rule-breaking and milk spotted on Senate floor as impeachment trial rolls on Democrats worry a speedy impeachment trial will shut out public MORE (R-Texas) on Sunday disputed the findings of a watchdog report that found the Trump administration's decision to withhold aid to Ukraine broke the law.
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The House will formally respond to the President's response on Monday, but a Democratic aide previewed the response, saying Trump was offering "slogans" and "didn't engage with the facts" or the mountain of evidence showing a broad campaign to pressure Ukraine to investigate the President's political rivals while the President broke the law by withholding US aid.
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The larger debate over how to treat an estimated 11 million immigrants who came here illegally has been at a stalemate for decades, with advocates seeking a "path to citizenship" for law-abiding families who have been in the country for years and opponents denouncing "amnesty" for people who broke the law to enter the country.
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On Thursday, a federal judge in Florida ruled that the Department of Justice broke the law by failing to confer with victims of Jeffrey Epstein, a well-connected Palm Beach billionaire and alleged serial sex abuser of underage girls, about the 2008 plea deal that garnered him only 13 months in prison and no federal trial.
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Tackling the issue for the first time, a state appeals court this week affirmed the New York statute, ruling that when a judge in Orange County empaneled an anonymous jury to hear the case of a crew of gang members accused of beating a rival, he broke the law and deprived the defendants of a fair trial.
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While it is hardly unusual for customs officials to nab drug suspects at New York's airports, what happened next not only broke the law, his lawyer says, but also seemed in keeping with a recent shift in immigration policy that a federal judge in Brooklyn has complained of twice in separate cases in the last three months.
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When the House of Representatives sued President Obama over a provision in Obamacare in 2014, arguing that Obama broke the law by giving money to insurers that hadn't been authorized by Congress, many legal experts gave it little chance of succeeding because they believed Speaker of the House John Boehner did not have standing to sue.
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The board in a 3-1 decision said Colorado supermarket chain King Soopers Inc broke the law in 2014 by firing Wendy Geaslin, who worked at a Starbucks kiosk in a Denver store, after she questioned an order to skip her lunch break and bag groceries, and must reimburse her for any expenses she incurred in a subsequent job hunt.
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James InhofeJames (Jim) Mountain InhofeDemocrats, environmentalists blast Trump rollback of endangered species protections Bottom Line Overnight Defense: Dems talk Afghanistan, nukes at Detroit debate | Senate panel advances Hyten nomination | Iranian foreign minister hit with sanctions | Senate confirms UN ambassador MORE (R-Okla.) and Ben Sasse (R-Neb) asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate whether the EPA knowingly broke the law.
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Vlad Viski of MozaiQ said Wednesday that "it is extremely worrying that a person who broke the law in the United States is being brought to Romania and presented as some sort of hero of Christianity... It is unacceptable for a person who disobeyed her own Constitution to tour Romania and give out advice about how Romania's Constitution should be changed."
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Mark Meadows of North Carolina and Lee Zeldin of New York outside the Capitol, Asked if the Government Accountability Office finding last week that the White House budget office broke the law in withholding aid from Ukraine went against the basis of their argument, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said the remedy for the violation was a lawsuit rather than impeachment.
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It all began in April when federal agents armed with search warrants seized reams of documents and data in a series of raids on Mr. Cohen's office, apartment and hotel room as part of an investigation into whether he broke the law by — among other acts — paying Ms. Clifford $130,000 not to speak about an affair she claims she had with Mr. Trump.
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If he concludes that he has evidence that the president broke the law, experts say, he now has only two main options while Mr. Trump remains in office: He could write a report about the president's conduct that Congress might use as part of any impeachment proceedings, or he could deem the president as an unindicted co-conspirator in court documents.
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Verdict: FALSE False claims that suggested that U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi broke the law when destroying her copy of President Donald Trump's State Of The Union (SOTU) speech went viral on social media, with articles shared over 12,000 times on Facebook (examples here and here) as of February 20713, 2020 and highly shared tweets (examples here and here).
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Barr has argued that position doesn't place a president above the law because he or she can still be charged with a crime, and told CBS in May he was "surprised" Mueller used that position as part of the reason he didn't charge the president with a crime or even give an opinion as to if Trump broke the law.
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For several months, prosecutors from the United States attorney's office in Manhattan have been looking into whether Mr. Cohen broke the law in any of his various business dealings — among them, a $130,000 payment he made to Ms. Clifford in the run-up to the 2016 election that was meant to keep her quiet about an extramarital affair she claims she had with Mr. Trump.
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It's not even clear that anyone in Clark County broke the law at all by keeping the polls open — in fact, the lawyer for the registrar's office explained patiently that during early voting, unlike Election Day, the county has always allowed people to get in line and vote as long as a line exists (even if the official poll closing time has already passed).
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The Trump administration has imposed fewer penalties on corporations that broke the law or violated regulations during President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's first year in office, according to a watchdog group.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpOur justice system must reward success Former Biden economic adviser: 'I really like a lot of' Warren's tax proposals Roy Moore calls for Omar to go back from 'whence she came' MORE on Wednesday blasted The Washington Post over a report that he urged aides to do whatever is necessary to complete construction of the wall along the southern border, and that he would pardon them if they broke the law.
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One of Cummings's most moving lines came during that same February hearing when Trump's former lawyer and personal fixer, Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenTrump offers condolences on frequent foe Cummings: 'Very hard, if not impossible, to replace' Elijah Cummings, Democratic chairman and powerful Trump critic, dies at 68 Schiff says committees will eventually make impeachment inquiry transcripts public MORE, testified to lawmakers that the president is a "racist" and a "con man" who broke the law.
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It also came out that Trump told the soon-to-be DHS chief last week that he'd be pardoned if he broke the law to stop the flow of migrants into the U.S. Attorney General William Barr may be aiding the cause: The Department of Justice will reportedly adopt new judicial rules that could allow for quick, cursory hearings to decide whether immigrants should be deported, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Those documents, said both chairman Jason ChaffetzJason ChaffetzHouse Oversight panel demands DeVos turn over personal email records The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by JUUL Labs - Trump attack on progressive Dems draws sharp rebuke GOP senators decline to criticize Acosta after new Epstein charges MORE (R-Utah) and ranking member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), suggest that Flynn broke the law by declining to disclose the payments from both Russia and Turkey in his application to renew his security clearance.
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With Comey indicating that over 100 emails analyzed by his agents contained some level of classified information, and with him further indicating that Clinton used her private servers in areas where "hostile actors" could have easily accessed her account, as a former prosecutor, I would think that a prosecution should be forthcoming; such would be the logical conclusion considering the facts that Clinton agreed not to break the law and that she broke the law either knowingly or negligently.
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The Department of Justice is investigating whether Zinke broke the law when a nonprofit he used to lead negotiated a land deal with a developer backed in part by David Lesar, the chairman of oilfield services company Halliburton Co. Zinke is also facing investigations from Interior's Office of the Inspector General and elsewhere over an American Indian casino he didn't approve, whether he tried to help a Utah lawmaker in redrawing a national monument and other ethics allegations.
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Sen. Chris Van HollenChristopher (Chris) Van HollenDemocratic senator to force vote requiring Roberts to weigh in on witnesses GOP predicts Roberts won't cast tie-breaking vote on witnesses Democrats offer mixed reactions to Trump's Mideast peace plan MORE (D-Md.) released a slew of documents Thursday night that were either obtained during or related to the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) assessment that the Trump administration broke the law when it withheld congressionally approved aid from Ukraine last summer.
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Heading into a crucial fall session, the aides confirmed CNN's previous reporting that the committee plans to broaden out its impeachment inquiry beyond the findings of the Mueller report to also examine questions about foreign payments to Trump's businesses that could violate the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, reports that the President dangled pardons to officials if they broke the law to carry out his immigration policies and hush-money payments made during the 2016 campaign.
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After a jury is selected on July 31st, the trial will explore whether Mr Manafort broke the law by hiding payments in off-shore accounts in Cyprus, St Vincent, the Grenadines and Britain to support a lavish lifestyle that included a $5.4m renovation of his Long Island resort home, a $3m Brooklyn brownstone, a Mercedes and a small fleet of Range Rovers, nearly $1m in antique rugs and a $520,440 shopping expedition at a men's clothing store in Beverly Hills.
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Three Democratic senators want an investigation into whether Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE broke the law when he had a close aide shop for apartments for him.
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Aware of that, Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Mueller report fades from political conversation Barr removes prisons chief after Epstein death MORE pre-determined that he and his deputy, Rod RosensteinRod RosensteinWhy the presumption of innocence doesn't apply to Trump McCabe sues FBI, DOJ, blames Trump for his firing Rosenstein: Trump should focus on preventing people from 'becoming violent white supremacists' MORE, had the authority to conclude whether or not Trump broke the law.
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In addition to examining episodes of possible obstruction laid out by Mueller, Nadler has announced that his committee will look into accusations that Trump violated campaign finance laws by paying hush money to two women claiming they had affairs with him more than a decade ago; that he's profited from government trips in which administration officials used taxpayer dollars to stay at his family-owned properties; and that he's offered to pardon border officials if they broke the law to discourage an influx of Central American migrants.
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It was written because the current state of public discourse has become so corroded that almost every public integrity case is maligned and questioned in an attempt to spin public opinion away from this simple fact: If the FBI serves a search warrant in a public integrity case, a grand jury is convened, and a federal prosecution of a public official is brought; there is probably significant evidence that the public official in question broke the law…in a manner serious enough to warrant some extremely valuable man-hours.
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Tammy DuckworthLadda (Tammy) Tammy DuckworthOvernight Defense: Dems talk Afghanistan, nukes at Detroit debate | Senate panel advances Hyten nomination | Iranian foreign minister hit with sanctions | Senate confirms UN ambassador Senate committee advances nomination of general accused of sexual assault Overnight Defense: General accused of sexual assault to get confirmation hearing | Senate to vote Monday on overriding Saudi arms deal veto | Next Joint Chiefs chair confirmed | Graham tries to ease Turkey tensions MORE (D-Ill.) alleged Monday that if Pruitt truly didn't know about the raises, the EPA broke the law.
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Tammy DuckworthLadda (Tammy) Tammy DuckworthOvernight Defense: Dems talk Afghanistan, nukes at Detroit debate | Senate panel advances Hyten nomination | Iranian foreign minister hit with sanctions | Senate confirms UN ambassador Senate committee advances nomination of general accused of sexual assault Overnight Defense: General accused of sexual assault to get confirmation hearing | Senate to vote Monday on overriding Saudi arms deal veto | Next Joint Chiefs chair confirmed | Graham tries to ease Turkey tensions MORE (D-Ill.) -- who gave birth Monday -- said the EPA broke the law if Pruitt wasn't aware of the raises.
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